When 38-year-old Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to drive her yellow motorbike through the gridlocked streets of Iran's capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn't her main worry. She instead girded herself for disapproving looks, verbal abuse and even being stopped by the police in Tehran for being a women riding a motorbike, something long frowned upon by hard-liners and conservative clerics in Iran. (AP Video by Saeed Sarmadi)
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When 38-year-old Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to drive her yellow motorbike through the gridlocked streets of Iran's capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn't her main worry. She instead girded herself for disapproving looks, verbal abuse and even being stopped by the police in Tehran for being a women riding a motorbike, something long frowned upon by hard-liners and conservative clerics in Iran. (AP Video by Saeed Sarmadi) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
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