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From the very beginning of his rise to power, Ruhollah Khomeini said that women should not go to offices “naked” and should wear an “Islamic veil”. In response to these words, which targeted women’s basic rights, on March 7, 2014, less than a month after political Islam came to power in Iran, thousands of men and women protested in Tehran and chanted the famous slogan “We did not make a revolution to go back.” The Islamic government, however, suppressed the protests with the label of Westernization and corruption.
KAYHAN.LONDON (Kayhan Institute) was founded by Dr. Mostafa Mesbahzadeh. The first issue of this newspaper was published on June 22, 1942. What makes the fate of this historical newspaper as a national and cultural heritage so important is its parallel life in Iran under the rule of the Islamic Republic and in the free space outside the country.
Whatever the extent of Kayhan’s professional and enlightening role over the past four decades,
Kayhan London