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During the time of Shah Regime, only a few women and girls used to wear hijab in universities, and they used to be ridiculed. That treatment was inhumane indecent and wrong; because, one must not ridicule and sling mud at what one does not agree with. And this is exactly what western media are doing today.
Do you know what the situation of our country was before the Revolution? Do you know how they undermined the moral foundations of this nation for fifty years in a deliberate and persistent way? Do you know what they did to Iranian women and girls?
During the time of Shah Regime, only a few women and girls used to wear hijab in universities and they used to be ridiculed. That treatment was inhuman, indecent and wrong because one must not ridicule and sling mud at what one does not agree with. And this is exactly what western media are doing today.
In our universities and in Shahid Beheshti University in particular, there were a number of religious youth. You would recognize some of the names if I told you their names. Some of them were my friends or relatives. We would gather in this university - which was called "The National University of Iran" at that time - and they would tell me certain things about the conditions of universities. First of all, there was not even a small place for praying, let alone for religious ceremonies. They had gathered money and built a small place for praying. But the government would not let such things happen. This was the case with Shahid Beheshti University, whose students were mainly from aristocratic and rich families. It was the center of corruption and immorality. The same was true of other universities as well. Pious students and professors were really under pressure in universities. The same was true of our society at large. A woman who wanted to observe hijab - not wear a chador and cover her face, but just wear partial hijab - could not walk in the streets.
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