Iran’s supreme leader hints that the government may loosen its strict dress codes, four months after the death of Mahsa Amini: “Women who do not have full hijab should not be considered as people outside of religion or against the Islamic Revolution.'
“Women who do not have full hijab should not be considered as people outside of religion or against the Islamic Revolution,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the most powerful person in the country, said during a speech, according to the state-runThe speech to a group of what the report described as “mothers and exemplary women” comes four months into the protests that were set off by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in a hospital days after being arrested by the country’s...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stands before a crowd of women during a meeting in Tehran on Wednesday. A portrait of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, hangs at right.While his comments were vague and did not promise to change the existing laws, they were a recognition of how potent the issue of the hijab remains, according to Abbas Milani, the director of Iranian studies at Stanford University.
“I think he knows how pervasive women’s rejection of compulsory hijab has been,” he said. “He is trying to convince the diminishing diehard supporters that the game is not up.” Since September, women across Iran have been defying strict hijab rules amid the demonstrations -- the most serious challenge to the Islamic Republic since its establishment in 1979. While the movement has morphed into a broad-based demand for change, the hijab, or head covering that women are required by law to wear, remains a potent symbol and rallying cry.
An unveiled woman stands on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way toward Aichi cemetery in Saqqez, Mahsa Amini's hometown in Iranian Kurdistan, on Oct. 26 to mark 40 days since her death.Meanwhile, the government has violently cracked down on protests and arrested demonstrators. In the past weeks, judges have handed down at least 26
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