Iranian Conservative Cleric Calls Iran's Veiling Policy Wrong-Headed
A conservative Iranian cleric has sharply criticized enforcement of the obligation for women to wear the Islamic head scarf, or hijab, since the 1979 revolution and the creation of Iran's Islamic republic. For more than three decades, Iranian clerics and officials --mostly men -- have praised the purported benefits of the hijab while employing punishment, including violence, to force women to fully cover their hair and body in public. As a result, tens of thousands of women have been harassed physically and verbally, detained, or forced to ...
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