Answer: Both authors think the Iranian regime uses fear to repress women. In reading Lolita in Tehran, the author explains that gun-toting men and women "patrol the streets to make sure that women like Sanaz wear their veils properly, do not wear makeup, do not walk in public with men who are not their fathers, brothers or husbands" (lines 19-22). The author of Persepolis 2 notes that "everything was a pretext to arrest" women.
