In October 1962 when the shah introduced a plan to (among other things) let women vote for the first time, Khomeini (and other religious people) were enraged: `The son of Reza Khan has embarked on the destruction of Islam in Iran. I will oppose this as long as the blood circulates in my veins.`" Religious Muslims fought the bill and the shah backed down.[Nehzat by Ruhani vol.1 p.195.] quoted in Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah by Baqer Moin (Thomas Dunne Books), c2000, (p.75) Historian Ervand Abrahamian also states that Khomeini had argued "for years that women's suffrage was unIslamic."Abrahamian, Khomeinism, 1993, pp.33-34
