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Nazenin Ansari joins IWF Visiting Fellow Ellie Cohanim in this She Thinks Podcast pop-up for Women’s History Month. They discuss the role of women in ancient Persian civilization and the landmark legal rights women attained during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 20th Century Iran, only to see women’s status in society regress starting with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in the country. Today, under the Islamic Republic of Iran, women are facing a gender apartheid.
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Beverly Hallberg:
Hey everyone, it’s Beverly Hallberg. Welcome to a special pop-up episode of She Thinks, your favorite podcast from the Independent Women’s Forum, where we talk with women and sometimes men, about the policy issues that impact you and the people you care about most. Enjoy.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterpart from Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, sign a declaration of cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran on March 27, 20201. (Photo: Fars News Agency)
Editor’s note: On Saturday China and Iran announced a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement where Beijing said it could invest up to $400 billion in Iran, expanding its economic and military influence, although the agreement is not a binding deal and did not specify financial commitments. We are republishing the following article that was originally written last year in October when early details of the draft of the agreement were leaked.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Chalk one up to Jean Baptiste Tavernier, a 17th century French diamond trader who left us an account of his travels in Persia. After years of interaction with Persian merchants, ministers and monarchs, he concluded that, “The Persians are naturally great dissemblers and flatterers; and they make it their study to acquire esteem and applause,” while, at the same time, being “mightily addicted to ill language, and foul-mouthed reproaches.”
Being French, Tavernier must have felt a certain kinship. Indeed, it wasn’t long before many Western scholars and historians were arguing that Persia was to the Muslim world what France under Louis XIV was to Christian Europe: the epitome of sophistication, elegance, high culture and, last but not least, cynical arrogance.
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