society and the position of women under the Taliban rule. It was very difficult to watch what happened to that little girl.
When I first moved to Tehran I was not much older than the girl in the movie. I was ten and I was challenged by boys and men on a fairly regular basis. Because I always stood up for myself and and was absolutely fearless, I rarely ran into anything that I could not handle.
Even though Tehran was a city of over 6 million people, I was able to be extremely independant at a very young age. Now Iran was a very different country than Afganistan was, and although I would be confronted constantly about not following traditions for women, I was only in violent situations three seperate times. I was able to get myself out of two of them and an American couple got me out of a fist fight with a taxi driver when I was 14. All in all, I would say that Iran is a fairly non-violent society.
