Raising the Veil

Raising the Veil will be shown at 1850 GMT on Saturday 25th November on BBC 2.

Through the stories of three families in Iran, Correspondent reveals the remarkable changes that are taking place in a country more notorious for its Islamic militancy than the pornography now available on the Internet and satellite TV.

With Drug addiction, prostitution and corruption on the increase, there is rising tension between the young and the hardline clerical leadership. A tension that has resulted already in over a hundred deliberately brutal murders of opposition intellectuals and the closing of dozens of opposition newspapers for being `unIslamic'.

As battlelines are drawn, reporter Tim Hodlin discovers that both sides fear a greater bloodbath than in the last revolution.

Reporter: Tim Hodlin

Producer: Bill Treharne Jones

Series Producer: Farah Durrani

Editor: Fiona Murch