1.   A generation after the revolution, Iranian women are by far the most politically active in the Persian Gulf and are among the most empowered in the Islamic world.

2.   But if the clerics think they can subdue Iranian women, they are mistaken.

3.   But even the most powerful Iranian woman says change must come.

4.   I once noticed an Iranian woman speaking in hushed tones to my translator.

5.   If you imagined that Iranian women, following Islamic teaching, tend to be mute, subservient acolytes to their conjugal lords and masters, you would be wrong.

6.   In defiance of the theocracy, Iranian women are proving irrepressible.

7.   Iranian women have successfully invaded male territories, although a dab of lipstick can still land them in jail.

8.   Iranian women, as Jamshidian points out, can go to universities, take high posts in companies and edit magazines.

9.   Iranian women cannot shake the hand of a man who is not a close blood relative.

10.   Iranian women are by far the most politically active in the Persian Gulf and are among the most empowered in the Islamic world.