Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 1
As images of Iranian women holding their hijabs aloft spread on social media, an influential activist said women are symbolically rejecting the wider “interference of religion” in their lives.
Many Iranian women are fighting against the most visible symbol of oppression and showed their protest without hijab against Iran Regime.
Following the spread of women in protest of compulsory hijab , Iran’s Presidential Strategic Studies Center release a statistics report regarding the status of hijab in Iran and the beliefs of the people. According to the report, 41% of the Iranian people are against the compulsory hijab.
Under Iran’s Islamic law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair with a scarf, known as a hijab, and wear long, loose-fitting clothes. Violators are publicly admonished, fined or arrested.
“These women are saying, ‘It is enough – it is the 21st century and we want to be our true selves,'” the Iranian activist told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The trend picked up momentum after video and images were posted online of one woman waving a white scarf on a stick in December – a day before demonstrations erupted against economic conditions in eastern Iran
