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[edit] Male-Only Presidency

Only men are allowed to become presidents in Iran. Why was my addition deleted.

--Geoff on 28 of October 2005

Put it back in.--Zereshk 16:34, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• He and she are the same in Farsi. However, I am certain that it is written in the laws of the Islamic Republic that women cannot become Presidents. I lived in Iran the 1990s and everybody said that there was a ban on female Presidency. This follows from the principle that female cannot become imams, which is another leadership position. Remember that Iran is a theocracy.

--66.81.192.235 00:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

It's actually stipulated in the constitution. The word "rejāl" is popularly interpreted as "men".--Zereshk 15:21, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

that is right. there has been a debate for a long time that resurfaces at every presidential election year that whether the word "rejal" was actually meant to be taken literally as "men" or not. although it seems the guardian council interprets it as "men" but they have never officially anounced it. for every election they accept and register female candidates but then they (the guardian council) dont' let them pass through the qualification stage.

• Plus, even though the Islamic people of Iran say that women can become physicians, lawyers, engineers, and so on, in practice most people don't expect women to go beyond high school. As far as I remember when I lived there more than a decade ago, the parents of women always worked energetically to sell their daughters to successful men. -- 03:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

women can and have become physicians, lawyers, engineers, and so on in Iran. Iran has a female vice president (vice president and head of enviromental protection organization) and there are also many female members of parliament. during Khatami's government, there was a female provincial governor and there are a few female mayors and hundreds of female city council members currently holding office in Iran. and about education, it has now been a few consecutive years that more female students (more than 50%) have entered universities than male students. All of this of course does not mean everything is well and ok for Iranian women, but nevertheless it proves your remarks are false.

• rstepp@sw.rr.com* Not so much false as mistaken...

• Iran's Vice President for Environmental Protection in 2006 is Fatemeh Javadi though she looks like a mullah protege with so much clothes that I wonder how she manages to walk up a few stairs without tripping. Nor can she push a small box across the table without getting strangled with the chador and scarves underneath secured in place with several safety pins. Honestly, what is with all this game?Patchouli 07:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)