"If I would�no longer be allowed to work as a realtor, I'm going to go to the Realtors�Association and sit in their offices until they give me some kind of job with a similar salary," Rezvaneh tells Al-Monitor.
�Women should not work as realtors�and should not be seeing loitering in real estate agencies,� Hesam Oghabai said in�December 2013. The announcement by�the chairman of the Realtors�Syndicate of Tehran Metropolitan Area, the largest in the country and the leading body in the field, surprised�many women realtors.

This new restriction has not yet been enforced. Oghabai added that Amaken, the body�responsible for enforcing religion-driven restrictions in commercial venues, had�previously requested such a restriction. Some women are hopeful that the�ban will�not be enforced, some are confident about�finding a job in another�line of work�but�others are very anxious and fear the worst for their careers and lives.

Read more here

 

The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted articles.