Posted on 07/15/2019 2:20:02 AM PDT by NorseViking
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for a young Iranian woman who often moves in Tehran's streets without a compulsory headscarf, or hijab.
With every step, she risks harassment or even arrest by Iran's morality police whose job is to enforce the strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
"I have to confess it is really, really scary," the 30-year-old fire-safety consultant said in a WhatsApp audio message, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions.
But she is also hopeful, saying she believes the authorities find it increasingly difficult to suppress protests as more women join in. "They are running after us, but cannot catch us," she said. "This is why we believe change is going to be made."
The hijab debate has further polarized Iranians at a time when the country is buckling under unprecedented U.S. sanctions imposed since the Trump administration pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers last year. It's unclear to what extent the government can enforce hijab compliance amid an economic malaise, including a currency collapse and rising housing prices.
There's anecdotal evidence that more women are pushing back against the dress code, trying to redefine red lines as they test the response of the ruling Shiite Muslim clergy and their security agencies.
An Associated Press reporter spotted about two dozen women in the streets without a hijab over the course of nine days, mainly in well-to-do areas of Tehran — a mall, a lakeside park, a hotel lobby.
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We shouldn’t bother with saracens.
LOL. Aryans aren’t Saracen:)
Iranians are saracens.
Let’s fix our own DOJ and FBI before we “fix” any more foreign countries.
I’m sure the AP would gleefully turn these women over to the Mohammadan authorities.
That’s definitely a reasonable suggestion.
Agreed. Our citizens first. Stop judicial activism. Work our tails off to defeat goolag in 2020. Congress is callling for imprisonment for critics, making this the most important election of our lifetime, again.
IIRC, it was the young women of that era that "proudly donned the hijab" to assert themselves as proud muslims.
How did that work out for you, ladies?
Half of the hajib wearers suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.
The other half just realize they will have the shit beat out of them if they take it off.
Don’t expect muslims in America to take their hijab off in solidarity with their suppressed sisters in Iran.
All need their hijabs removed and banned in public.
Actually Iranians are Persian and not Arabs. The saracens were islamic Arabs. The lead saracen was from Tikrit and a Kurd
Kurds aren’t Arab either.
Feminism.
Our Secret Weapon against Islam.
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