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chadorAll-enveloping black garment for women worn by some Muslims and Hindus. The origin of the chador dates to the 6th century BC under Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenian Empire in Persia. Together with the purdah (Persian ‘veil’) and the idea of female seclusion, it persisted under Alexander the Great and the Byzantine Empire, and was adopted by the Arab conquerors of the Byzantines. Its use was revived in Iran in the 1970s by Ayatollah Khomeini in response to the Koranic request for ‘modesty’ in dress. |
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Women lost the social gains they had made under the Shah, and were forced to wear head coverings and full-body cloaks called chadors. Embassy officials harbor the illusion that they conduct diplomacy from those mini-fortresses, retreating into their own chador of protection. She describes how Iranian women routinely combat the ambient grayness imposed by the regime by wearing colorful chador designs revealing far more than they are supposed to. |
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