🇮🇷 A TV commercial for chai from Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Different clothes, different music, different world.
46 years ago, this was simply a normal ad.
🇮🇷 The 1979 Islamic Revolution radically transformed Iran from kingdom to theocracy.
But it was not what the feminists who helped Khomeini overthrow the Shah had in mind.
Just two months later, 100,000 women took to the streets to protest the newly-imposed hijab, which had been banned under Pahlavi.
Bad miscalculation.
Source: DW News (YouTube)