“A curtailed dream” is the nickname given to the highly publicized amendment omitted from the Iranian new year’s budget act. The amendment would have offered health insurance to homemakers without a job outside the house. It initially passed the Majles (Iranian parliament), but was entirely omitted due to multiple budgetary concerns expressed by the Guardian Council.

The amendment was proposed by women's activists, publicized by women's lobbyists and unanimously agreed upon by the government and members of the women’s Majles faction. Another section of the proposal would have provided health insurance to a minimum of 200,000 households headed by women, who have never been considered for insurance and health benefits.

Prior to its omission from the new year’s budget plan, the budget dedicated to women belonging to this seemingly forgotten group within Iranian society was reduced by 85%. Yet, questions, concerns and disagreements continued to grow and the entire amendment was discarded just before the final steps were taken to finalize the budget for the year 1393. 

Some conservatives say the proposal was a thoughtful plan cooked up by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration and misrepresented by the Hassan Rouhani administration, which failed to present the plan in a convincing fashion while paying close attention to important details, including properly identifying sources of the finances intended for such health insurance plans. That is, according to this group, how the amendment ended up in the trash.