[1] The clerical-led Islamist faction at the time, lacking the capacity and hegemony to marginalize rival political contenders, were forced into retreat following the protests as far as these goals were concerned.

[1] By June 1981, the greater part of Iran's liberal and leftist political spectrum was destroyed by the pro-Khomeini faction.

[1] Then, in 1983, the Iranian parliament (Majles) approved of a law "punishing women who refused to comply with state-enforced veiling".

[6][1] In 1978–1979, in the dawn of the Islamic Revolution, the anti-Shah front consisted of a very broad group of liberals, religious nationalists, militant Islamists, Marxists-Leninists, bazaaris, and striking oil workers.

[3] The veil decree was received by many as evidence that, despite having fought in the revolution, women were being relegated, as one protest leader expressed it, "back to dog status".

[8] On the morning of March 8, tens of thousands of women gathered outside the new Prime Minister's office in Tehran.

[8] One protester said: Militiamen were reportedly restrained, but guns were fired in the air when the women and their counter-protestors appear to be near collision.

[8] The women protestors were attacked at the streets by mobs of counter-protestors with knives, stones, bricks, and broken glass.

[8] This statement by Mahmoud Taleghani from the government, assuring the public that the hijab would not be enforced, only encouraged, resulted in calming the protests.

Feminists from Germany, France, Egypt, and a number of other countries united to form a Solidarity Committee (CIDF).

[7] Millett said: A 12-minute documentary about the protests was made by the militant French feminist group, Psychoanalysis and Politics, who attended the march while documenting what they saw.

[3] When the left and the liberals were eliminated by June 1981,[1] and the conservatives secured solitary control, however, veiling was enforced on all women.