"Badly Veiled Women Behaving Badly" - The Latest Iran News from RFE/RL's Golnaz Esfandiari
Iranian women in Islamic dress, Tehran, 11Jun2012x
Iranian women in Islamic dress, Tehran, 11Jun2012
In the latest installment of "
Persian Letters," RFE/RL Iran expert
Golnaz Esfandiari shares the story of an Iranian cleric who claims he was beaten to the point of hospitalization
by a woman he had told to "cover up."
Esfandiari was also recently featured on
NPR's "All Things Considered" with Mike Shuster in a report on the impact of sanctions on Iran's willingness to cooperate with the international community over its nuclear program. She also authored the
Iran section of the 2012 "Countries at the Crossroads" report, recently published by Freedom House.
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