Progress! Iran to Open Women Only Bank

Slouching toward the 8th Century.

Now introducing the latest all-girl's club … in Iran.

State-owned Bank Melli opened Iran's first bank branch to employ and serve women exclusively on Mhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifonday.

Located about 600 miles from Tehran, the branch in Mashad may be the first of its kind, but there are promises of others like it to follow.

The institution’s goal is "to protect women's virtue in the social sphere," Mahmoud-Reza Khavari, the bank's managing director, told IRNA. "Facilitating banking and financial services to the economy's influential women is one of the reasons for opening this branch."

A few more great leaps forward like this and next thing you know Iranian women might be treated as human beings.