Life Style In Iran In 1970s (pics)

[TARIQ BN ZIYAAD]

Iran is the only country which deserves and has everything to be the leader of Muslim World. Not Turkey nor Egypt has the capacity of Iran. Be it in Arts, Science or any other field.
Hope to see Iran rise to it's righteous position in the world.

lol

TARIQ

 

[AUz]

Wow! Iran was modern and advance in 70's.. Holy Cow...

And hows that? Just because Iranian women used to be half-naked like Western women..it doesn't mean that "Iran was modern and advance" country. Iranians should determine their OWN identity and culture.The pictures you're seeing are glaringly evident of Western influence on Iran..no they don't have any influence of West Iran is perfect now..just one problem..their rigid clergy.Their clergy needs to get more liberal and STOP imposing "chadors" on women..duhhh

 

[Abii]

all of them will be old now and will be saying to their grand children "haha we enjoyed more than you guys"

lol double edged sword
on one side you're correct, they did enjoy their time in Iran more than us but then they suddenly had their world turned upside down. My mom for example had to wear a scarf for the first time in her life after the revolution!!

 

[Abii]

LMAO.I hardly think these pictures represented the majority of Iran. These people are like our elitists in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad. The expatriates of Iran cry foul about the Iranian Revolution for the reason that their affluent families got kicked to the curb, and the regime started representing the larger diaspora of the Iranian people. We can find western wanna-bes like this within India and bollywood today.

you can't be more wrong
my grandmother was a single mother (grand father died when my mom was a child). She was only able to raise my mom and her siblings because her brother suppoted her. But over all my grandma went through hell to raise my mom and her siblings. They also grew up in Kerman and Isfahan (not Tehran) but none of them even consider themselves muslim. Not a single person in the family can pray lol

In general the Iranian society is divided between the two extremes. One side is religious and the other superrrr liberal. The latest gallop poll regarding irreligion around the world shows that 16 percent of Iranians are atheists/agnostic. The funny thing is that irreligion is punishable by jail time and even death according to the Iranian penal code so if people weren't scared to say the truth, the figure would be around 30 percent!



P.S. Most Iranians outside Iran left Iran more than a decade after the revolution (for example my family left in 2000) and not during the revolution so you can't lump everyone into the "elitist group that left b/c of the rev in the 70's."

 

[Abii]

And hows that? Just because Iranian women used to be half-naked like Western women..it doesn't mean that "Iran was modern and advance" country. Iranians should determine their OWN identity and culture.The pictures you're seeing are glaringly evident of Western influence on Iran..no they don't have any influence of West Iran is perfect now..just one problem..their rigid clergy.Their clergy needs to get more liberal and STOP imposing "chadors" on women..duhhh

They have to impose the chador because most Iranian women are "western." Why do you think that 95 percent of Iranians outside the country neither pray nor wear the hijab? Even if they consider themselves muslim, they are super easy going (more than the Turks IMO).
The problem in IRan is that our conservatives and liberals are both extreme and for the past century one side has always oppressed the other. Neither side is willing to give up ground and this will go on until one side wins (the Islamic regime failed miserably in radicalizing the post rev population so I would argue that the liberal side will eventually gain the upper hand again).

 

[Abii]

People mainly dressed up like these in Big cities like Tehran,Shiraz,Mashdad and a few more

My mom is from Kerman (one of Iran's poorest places along with baluchistan province) and every pic I've seen from that time in the family album shows men and women wearing super western clothing (with the gentleman hats and everything lol). Only the arabs and baluchis refused to adopt Western clothing. Almost everybody else started wearing western clothing in the 30s-50's. Today even villagers wear western clothing (there are exceptions of course).

 

[venu309]

My mom is from Kerman (one of Iran's poorest places along with baluchistan province) and every pic I've seen from that time in the family album shows men and women wearing super western clothing (with the gentleman hats and everything lol). Only the arabs and baluchis refused to adopt Western clothing. Almost everybody else started wearing western clothing in the 30s-50's. Today even villagers wear western clothing (there are exceptions of course).

Kya se Kya Ho gaya...I'm sure most of you Iranians may be upset because of this complete change in lifestyle ...it would have quite difficult & strange in the begining..

 

[RKhan]

all i see is women showing off their assets- and therki people labeling them as modern and progressive society- no wonder when nudity became the sign of a progressing society-

No but the right for a woman to decide how she dresses and do what she wants is.

Edit: Also had a conversation with my Dad a while back telling me about how great Iran was and the beautiful beaches. At that time there was tons of money to be mad and have a great life doing it.

 

[harpoon]

They have to impose the chador because most Iranian women are "western." Why do you think that 95 percent of Iranians outside the country neither pray nor wear the hijab? Even if they consider themselves muslim, they are super easy going (more than the Turks IMO).
The problem in IRan is that our conservatives and liberals are both extreme and for the past century one side has always oppressed the other. Neither side is willing to give up ground and this will go on until one side wins (the Islamic regime failed miserably in radicalizing the post rev population so I would argue that the liberal side will eventually gain the upper hand again).

I had heard about Iran having the strongest military and economy in ME in the 1970s. Its still an enigma to me why they had to forgo all this and convert themselves to a religious theocracy.

 

[Abii]

I had heard about Iran having the strongest military and economy in ME in the 1970s. Its still an enigma to me why they had to forgo all this and convert themselves to a religious theocracy.

well you're wrong. Nobody gave that up b/c nobody wanted this. Iran went though a popular revolution. The problem was that at that time only half the country could read and write and the other half wasn't really sure what it wanted. A good chunk of Iranians were communists but they acted more like anarchists. The nationalists were more loyal to the monarchy than to a federal system that Iran needed badly and so on...

After the revolution the country was a free for all. The only real organized groups were the religious groups like "fadaine Islam" (born out of the Islamic Brotherhood movement of Egypt) and these groups were able to rally the people behind them. The uneducated didn't need convincing and the rest didn't have any experience with a real Islamic government as Iran had been a super liberal country since the 30's (Islam was part of the Iranian identity at the time just like it's for the Turks today. They simply didn't think about Iran becoming a theocracy. I don't think anybody even knew what a theocracy was. A more religious society like Egypt however is more vary of groups like the Brotherhood so they will work harder to stop them from getting the upper hand). A lot of people say that if the Iran-Iraq war hadn't happened, the religious groups wouldn't have been able to take the country the way they did. They used the war to take over the army and create a coup proof system (they now control everything in Iran and on top of that they have their own seperate army, navy and airforce so a convential coup by the army is out of the question).

 

[RezRoll]

Abii, your post and experiences match that of mine with the Iranian people I have met in real life (My university had 600 Iranian students).

Strange how the girls rarely wear hijab and the Iranians are quite liberal people, yet their government is run by religious clerics.

I suggest members here to watch this Iranian movie, "Persepolis", that i watched some time back, gives a bit of explaination on the minds of Iranian people and how Iran came to how it was. And of course, even on it's own, it's a solid movie

 

[jha]

^^^ Abii has described the Iranians perfectly..They tend to be the most liberal person of the region..

 

[venu309]

well you're wrong. Nobody gave that up b/c nobody wanted this. Iran went though a popular revolution. The problem was that at that time only half the country could read and write and the other half wasn't really sure what it wanted. A good chunk of Iranians were communists but they acted more like anarchists. The nationalists were more loyal to the monarchy than to a federal system that Iran needed badly and so on...

After the revolution the country was a free for all. The only real organized groups were the religious groups like "fadaine Islam" (born out of the Islamic Brotherhood movement of Egypt) and these groups were able to rally the people behind them. The uneducated didn't need convincing and the rest didn't have any experience with a real Islamic government as Iran had been a super liberal country since the 30's (Islam was part of the Iranian identity at the time just like it's for the Turks today. They simply didn't think about Iran becoming a theocracy. I don't think anybody even knew what a theocracy was. A more religious society like Egypt however is more vary of groups like the Brotherhood so they will work harder to stop them from getting the upper hand). A lot of people say that if the Iran-Iraq war hadn't happened, the religious groups wouldn't have been able to take the country the way they did. They used the war to take over the army and create a coup proof system (they now control everything in Iran and on top of that they have their own seperate army, navy and airforce so a convential coup by the army is out of the question).

Sounds like Iran's has journeyed from a Golden Era to Dark Ages.

 

[Abii]

Sounds like Iran's has journeyed from a Golden Era to Dark Ages.

well, I would argue that this Islamic regime has actually made Iran more Western. The Pahlavi dynasty (Reza shah and his son Mohamad Reza Shah) forced the Iranian society to adopt more and more Western values (not that it didn't succeed). This regime however made Iranians LOVE Western values such as democracy and absolute liberalism. They have managed to educate the entire country while failing to radicalize the population (for example the Saudi education system puts MUCH more emphasis on religious studies and as a results the population is much more radicalized). The oppresive and azz backward nature of the regime has also made Iranians question Islam and this never happened under previous regimes. My grandmother says that Iranians back then were much more religious than today even though they never wore the Hijab etc...

As ironic as it sounds, the Iranian regime has IMO Westernized Iran more than any regime since the Arab invasion in the 6th century. People are going as far as questioning Islam and its role in Iranian society.

 

[notsuperstitious]

and naked and shameless and lost identity..
you cant tell by looking at pictures if its paris or tehran....
atleast they have an identity now.

Always amusing to see Pakistani telling other people about identity. After a glorious zoroastrian past, the Iranians adopted and made their own the Islamic culture. If they adopt any other partly or fully, what is it to anyone else?