Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

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Ruhollah Khomeini. (2025, March 26). Wikiquote. Retrieved 00:05, May 12, 2025 from https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&oldid=3691448.

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Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Psalm 137:9 KJV

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In a speech on 1 February 1979 delivered to a huge crowd after returning to Iran from exile, Khomeini made a variety of promises to Iranians for his coming Islamic regime: a popularly elected government that would represent the people of Iran and with which the clergy would not interfere. He promised that “no one should remain homeless in this country”, and that Iranians would have free telephone, heating, electricity, bus services and free oil at their doorstep.

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With people’s revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established. Ruhollah Khomeini, Imam’s Sahife vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).