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Political Attitudes in An Iranian Village: A Follow-up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

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My earlier article on this subject (Iranian Studies XVI, 1-2, Winter-Spring 1983) concerned the situation up to the summer of 1981, i.e., the time of Bani-Sadr's dismissal and the first major bombing of the clerical leaders. This article, based on another visit I made to the village in 1983, describes the attitudinal changes that had occurred during the two intervening years.

For the most part, there appeared to be increasing pressure to adhere strictly to the “Islamic” code of dress and public behavior. Not only were there now a permanent contingent (of varying size) of mainly locally derived pasdar in the village, and a hezbollahi (i.e., fanatic, in the usage of the liberals) bakhshdar who served to enforce such behavior, but the members of the newly established village council and also government employees served the same function. Even school children were requested to tell their mothers to wear proper hejab.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1984 , pp. 453 - 466
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1984

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Footnotes

As in the previous article it appeared necessary again to strictly safeguard the identity of the people involved. Therefore, the author decided to remain anonymous and to reveal neither the locality of the village nor the quantitative details on which the generalizations in this article are based.

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Notes

1. Emad Ferdows, “The Reconstruction Crusade and Class Conflict in Iran.” MERIP Reports, No. 113 (March-April 1983), p. 14.