The return to sharia in Iran has affected families in Iran because with the introduction of sharia family law that reduced and eventually disregarding the Family Protection Law and the then what took place was the reinstatement of the fiqh traditions for marriage and divorce (635). What this did was gave men and women the same opportunities under the law. So, women just as men were able to have access to divorce and custody rights. Ayatollah Khomeini believed that by restoring sharia as law this would give women and families protection. Women didn’t see it that way and their husbands could now divorce their wives even without consulting or asking their wives. This caused such an issue with women that because this change had been the cause
