Iran's protests may have subsided, but women have found new ways to defy the country's regime.

A young woman walks down a street in Tehran, her hair uncovered, her jeans ripped, a bit of midriff exposed to the hot Iranian sun. An unmarried couple walk hand in hand. A woman holds her head high when asked by Iran’s once-feared morality police to put a hijab on, and tells them: “Screw you!”

These acts of bold rebellion - described to me by several people in Tehran over the past month - would have been almost unthinkable to Iranians this time last year. But that was before the death in the morality police’s custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been accused of not wearing her hijab [veil] properly.

The mass protests that shook Iran after her death subsided after a few months in the face of a brutal crackdown, but the anger that fuelled them has not been extinguished. Women have just had to find new ways to defy the regime.

A Western diplomat in Tehran estimates that across the country, an average of about 20% of women are now breaking the laws of the Islamic Republic by going out on to the streets without the veil.

  • @Spendrill@lemm.eeEnglish
    -12•1 year ago

    The fuck you talking about about, ‘Evil West’? I’m nothing to do with those corrupt fucks and neither are pretty much anyone I know. The ‘security services’ are a faction to themselves working for a certain sector of corporate interest and a peoples and their governments are often not in alignment.

    You on the other hand, I’ve seen you several times and several places talking out of your arse, so much so that you’re one of the handful of users that I now recognise. You can fucking do one.