For many Iranian women, it’s an image that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago, said Fatemeh Shams, who grew up in Mashhad. Iranian women are putting an end to a veiled society and the compulsory veil,” she said. Iran's Islamic Republic requires women to cover up in public. “The most important protest they (Iranian women) are doing right now is taking off their scarves and burning them,” she added. Iranian women who grew up before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1979 remember a country where women were largely free to choose how they dressed.

Source: Libya Today October 02, 2022 17:38 UTC