WORLD HISTORY

____ The grim statutes [laws] that I would spend the rest of my life fighting stared back at me from the page:the value of a woman’s life was half that of a man (for instance, if a car hit both on the street, the cash compensation due to the woman’s family was half that due the man’s); a woman’s testimony in court as a witness to a crime counted only half as much as a man’s; a woman had to ask her husband’s permission for divorce. The drafters of the penal code had apparently consulted the seventh century for legal advice. The laws, in short, turned the clock back fourteen hundred years, to the early days of Islam’s spread, the days when stoning women for adultery and chopping off the hands of thieves were considered appropriate sentences ____ Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening Based on this passage, which statement is a valid conclusion about Iran following the revolution in 1979?