This remained true in the post-revolution Iran as well. In 1979, the number of students in Iran’s Universities numbered about 175,000. This number shot up to 1.25 million students in the early 1990s. The drastic increase of both men and most notably women attending university in the post Khomeini death period, added to an intensifying atmosphere of new expectations for democracy, civil rights and pragmatism. This generation rebelled in many ways from the revolutionary Islamic ideology, disapproving the government’s moral police and turning to prostitution, drugs and a wide-spread refusal to participate in religious practice; all means of escaping what they believed to be a hopeless political and social
This remained true in the post-revolution Iran as well. In 1979, the number of students in Iran’s Universities numbered about 175,000. This number shot up to 1.25 million students in the early 1990s. The drastic increase of both men and most notably women attending university in the post Khomeini death period, added to an intensifying atmosphere of new expectations for democracy, civil rights and pragmatism. This generation rebelled in many ways from the revolutionary Islamic ideology, disapproving the government’s moral police and turning to prostitution, drugs and a wide-spread refusal to participate in religious practice; all means of escaping what they believed to be a hopeless political and social