(October 25 00:40) CNN.com
            
                Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi was 10 when wearing the veil became compulsory at the  non-religious, French-speaking school she attended in Tehran. Previously, boys and girls were taught together, but she was soon also separated from her male friends in the name of a cultural revolution instigated by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
            
            
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