Portrait of an Iranian Woman at the Beach in 1960

Before the Islamic Revolution took place in Iran in 1979, and Khomeini’s revolution transformed every aspect of Iranian society, Iran was a very different world. It was also a world that was looking brighter for women. And, as everyone knows, when things get better for women, things get better for everyone. Here’s a vintage portrait of a beautiful Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic Revolution, 1960.