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For the most fundamentalist chadori, those who kiss Khomeini's picture in reverence, the revolution is over. The Shah has been replaced by Khomeini as their religious father, who assures them that under Islam they will be respected as"serious and effective human beings." Those women face their educated sisters across an enormous gap. Said one middle-class woman who was menaced by screaming fanatics during the marches: "I could have been speaking Chinese, I was so misinterpreted. We must find a shared concern."
For liberal Iranians also searching for shared concerns, there is a growing fear that their revolution has just begun. They see surveillance, press censorship, crowded prisons and secretive rule, theocratic instead of autocratic. They are waiting for this week's referendum, waiting for the constitution few have been allowed to see.
And it was not only the women who were saying: "If we do not achieve what we deserve, we will go on fighting.''