TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's
semi-official ISNA news agency says university students have held a
campus protest against authorities' increasing pressure on women to wear
mandatory headscarves in public.
The report
says the students — both men and women — briefly scuffled with another
group of Tehran University students who support the country's
conservative dress code.
ISNA reported in May that a prominent human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was sentenced to seven years in prison after defending anti-hijab protesters.
Iranian authorities have adopted a tougher approach toward such protests since 2017, after dozens of women publicly took off their headscarves. Fox News
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My opinion: As a well known far far Left supporter of all things tolerant, I would have to go with the societal morays, of what is in reality a rather Medieval philosophy, when it comes to addressing gender responsibilities. I'm just surprised that the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has not gone back to the days of the burka as the standard mode of dress for otherwise brazen women on the streets. I mean, you only need to look as far as the streets of Dearborn Michigan in order to not only observe Islamic dress codes, but also the adoption by the City Council of Shariah Law.
Great bllog you have
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