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Those Sexy Iranians
Women are required to cover their hair and to wear either a chador cloak or an overcoat, called a manteau, every time they go out, and these are meant to be black and shapeless. But the latest fashion here in Shiraz, in central Iran, is light, tight and sensual.Unlike Lynndie Englandâs outfit. "There are some manteaus with slits on the sides up to the armpits," said Mahmoud Salehi, a 25-year-old manteau salesman. "And then there are the `commando manteaus,â with ties on the legs to show off the hips and an elastic under the breasts to accentuate the bust." They should be sending these commandos to Iraq. Theyâd probably be more effective. Worse, from the point of view of hard-line mullahs, young women in such clothing arenât getting 74 lashes any more â theyâre getting dates. As the decadent Disney cartoon says, "Love conquers all." "Parents canât defeat children," Mr. Salehi mused. "Children always defeat their parents." At last, a universal truth And thatâs what Iranâs baby boomers, a wave of 18 million people 15 to 25 years old, are doing. They will transform their country, just as baby boomers in the West changed America and Europe. I donât think Iranâs theocracy can survive them, for Iâve never been to a country where young people seem more frustrated. The ultimate weapon against the Mullahs, Boomers. The regimeâs problem is that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini exhorted Iranians to have more children, and they responded â today, 60 percent of the countryâs population was born after his Iranian revolution. And these young people are determining social mores and carving out a small zone of freedom for themselves. Perhaps sime is on our side! snip Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-05-08 |
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