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An image of alleged Afghan women in MiniFalda circulates to criticize the involution of Afghanistan since the 70s, but it is a photograph taken in Iran in 1971

*Update 08/23/2021

There are many photographs that circulate these days to give an account of the involution of Afghanistan and the loss of freedom of Afghan women since the 70s. One of them shows a group of young people in MiniFalda accompanied by the following message: “This photo isof the 1970s in Afghanistan.At that time the country had a socialist government. ”However, the photo of these women is not taken in Afghanistan, but in Iran.

An image of university students in Iran before the revolution that knocked on the SHA

The image shows students from the University of Tehran (Iran) in 1971 and was published in the book The Land of Kings (Rahnama Publications, 1971).This is how Dr. Kaveh Farrokh, a renowned historian about Iran born in Athens (Greece), but of Persian origin (*).It also appears in British media such as Daily Mail or Spaniards such as world order and confidential.

In these media it is used to illustrate articles about life in Iran before the 1979 revolution, which ended Sha Mohamed Reza Pahlevi and catapulted Ayatollah Jomeini at the head of an Islamic Republic.

Therefore, the context of photography is different from how it is presented in some publications.The image is neither from Afghanistan nor is taken under a socialist government.In fact, Iran was in 1971 a monarchy led by the SHA with an important influence of the United States, as evidenced by President Nixon's visit in 1972.

As the famous graphic novel ─and film by Marjane Satrapi Persepolis, the lifting of the Iranians against SHA in 1978 resulted in an Islamic Republic led by Ayatolá Jomeini, which meant an involution of freedoms with a Shiite theocracy.The Beatles stopped sounding and all foreign music, especially the one from the United States, was banished.

Socialist government in Afghanistan?

The message that erroneously places the photograph of women in Afghanistan in the 70s also says that, at that time, Afghans had a "socialist government" that "ended" because of the United States, which he accuses of promoting the Taliban.

In the early 70s, when the photo dates, Afghanistan was not an Islamic Emirate Talibán (1996-2001), but neither did a socialist government.In 1971 it was a monarchy governed by Mohamed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, who was thrown out of power in 1973 by a coup perpetrated by his cousin.He died in 2007, as the country then reported, and is remembered as one of the country's great modernizers.

Socialism did not arrive in Afghanistan until the end of the 70s. On April 27, 1978, army officers and the Afghan Air Force gave rise to the SAUR revolution, of communist court.

As explained by the Professor of International Law Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Gilbert and the Corumel José Pardo de Santayana in a publication of the Army War School (Ministry of Defense) and the Carlos III University of Madrid, this new socialist government followed a moderate policyAnd he managed to keep the country under control, but ended up causing a rebellion to separate Islam and traditional Afghan tribes.

According to a report from the United States Department of State published in 2001, before the arrival of the Taliban in 1996 there was a "protection" of women in the law.They had the right to vote since 1920 and in the 60s the equality in the Constitution was recognized.

Images of Bill Podlich in Afghanistan that do show women in the 60s and 70s

Many of the images that are shared on Afghanistan in those years of open and progress correspond to William Podlich, a professor at the University of Arizona who at the end of the 60s joined a UNESCO project in Kabul.There he photographed his daughters from Peg and Jan, whose snapshots can be digitized in his archive.

These photos are usually shared on social networks to account for the "freedoms" of women Afghanistan at that time, but many times it is overlooked that those women who appear with Western clothes in their photographs are mainly their daughters and their daughters and theirWife, not Afghan women.Some of these images can be seen in this photographic report published by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

(*) Update at 18:30 of 08/23/2021.The information of this article was updated with references from the photograph in question on the website of Dr. Kaveh Farrokh and his publication in the book The Land of Kings (1971).

Sources

Reverse image search tool with Google and Yandex

Council on Foreign Relations

Daily Mail

The world order

Publication of the Army War School and Carlos III University

The confidential

Zahir Shah necrological in the country

US Department of State Department

Digitized Archive of William Podlich

Der Spiegel

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