Morgan Shuster regarding events in Tehran in 1911provides...

Morgan Shuster regarding events in Tehran in 1911provides some indication of how mistaken this assumption is. With the dark days when doubts came to be whispered as to whether the Medjlis would stand firm [against Russian threats], the Persian women, in their zeal for liberty and their ardent love for their country . . . supplied the answer. Out from their walled courtyards and harems marched three hundred of that weak sex, with the flush of undying determination in their cheeks.

They were clad in their plain black robes with the white nets of their veils dropped over their faces. Many held…