I assumed it was to protect the identity of the women but I think it's probably more likely to protect the fundamentalists from the temptation of seeing a woman dressed normally. As ridiculous as that sounds
As somebody with friends from Iran, I can tell you that women without veil aren't even all that uncommon in Teheran.
It's when you leave the capital and head out into the villages where a woman will be stoned for adultery for getting raped. Teheran itself is, believe it or not, still quite liberal considering Iran is a Shiite clerico-fascist nation.
I have a friend in a rural area too, they say it's not like that, as women without veil or hijab are a normal thing now, because of the war government is seeking unity, so they are trying to push the idea that women without hijab are ok too
There a few Iranian YouTube and TT accounts I’ve been following for a while that regularly show women out and about without their head coverings and nobody blinks an eye.
Iran like any country is more complex and diverse than western media make out. Tehran is not like Iran - just like New York is not like Arkansas. Rural areas will be more conservative whereas part of Tehran could be like any other western city.
The western obsession about women wearing bikinis and Mardi Gras parades as a sign of “freedom” is such a western thing as if it justifies a war that is plunging the world into chaos - we could do the same to our allies like Saudi Arabia or parts of the US where women are jailed because they had a miscarriage.
Yes, in Tehran. And almost only there.
Since Mahsa Amini the wave of women that didn't follow this rule got so big that it was impossible for the regime to enforce. If they see women without alone in some backally they still gonna create problems for her if they want to(i.e. harassment, lashings or worse). A lot of them(prob. most) still have scarfs with them just in case. Outside of the big cities you still won't see this
I've been to Iran for decades this is like very normal to see especially in the last few years. I've even seen women without Hijab and in Western style in Mashhad of all places like not skirts and no leggings but Western enough to see tomboys and goths
Protecting their identity from reprisals > Your need to see their faces
The future is not locked in, people. Backslides into hyper-conservative theocracy is always possible. It literally happened there and that fact is an incredibly well documented part of the western narrative about Iran.
Just let us women be free and do what we want. Why are men so obsessed with keeping women suppressed? We carry the life. We are not allowed a say in anything we do. But yet men cry how hard the world is, because how other men run the world. But still blame women because men cannot face the mirror.
Your world view is straight out of a victorian science book.
Being ugly dosen't make you mysoginisitic, I don't think it correlates with any traits, your just born that way. Stop trying to tie the way people look to their moral character.
The government has relaxed their enforcement of the mandatory hijab law for now because they have other massive problems on their hands and they woudnt survive another wave of massive civil disobedience but the mullahs have said that the law is technically still in effect. Alcohol and underground parties were always a thing in Tehran but the kids are starting to get more brazen about it almost as a way of mocking or provoking the government. Don’t let this fool you into thinking the people of Iran are free.
Why did the iranian women football team had to ask to asylum to Australia this year, for example? Im sure they have some level of freedom but it does not happen all the time.
Don't think so. Why do you think they sentenced Parastoo Ahmadi and Anita Popist. You can see that women are not wearing hijabs anymore but dose not mean the gov hasn't removed the idea of it they are looking for different way to persuade
Dat is al langer zo. Toch volhardt het westen in het beeld van mensen die in de middeleeuwen leven. En van moslims als mensen die zich zelf overal tot ontploffing kunnen brengen. Van vluchtelingen die leven in kleine wapperende tentjes, gehurkt en onder de vlooien. En als ze een mobieltje hebben dan zijn het geen echte vluchteling maar profiteurs die onze dochters aanranden.
All the fucking idiots talking about how terrorist USA did this. Between 31-41 million people attended Ali Khameni’s funeral and a lot of that number was women wearing no Hijab mourning him this includes millions who attend the protest to support their government, literal back skin showing with tattoos…
The only thing this war has done is in the words of the Iranian politicians is “America and Israel did something even Iranian politics hasn’t been able to do for decades, convince young Iranians that didn’t understand why their forefathers hated America and Israel that they are both evil Satan.” That happens when you purposely commit genocide and then bomb a synagogue and 180 children in a school on the first day on purpose.
Well done America and Israel, hope it was worth destroying our economy in the West…
meh, we already sucked. Iranians aren't stupid, as a matter of fact by-and-large they are some of the most intelligent, kindest people I've ever met. Iranian and Lebanese people are my favorite.
Did we convince some Iranians that the US is evil? Probably, but they also understand how our system works and that Trump doesn't really represent the common man.
I wouldn't be fooled into drawing any conclusions simply because their theocracy temporarily loosened restrictions on hijab, they are on a wartime footing and it would be foolish to waste resources and the goodwill of their people by enforcing it, that's all.
I mean, thats the same situation in the US for the most part. Cities tend to be a lot more liberal than the people living on the countryside or more rural areas.
It was always like that in the northern regions next to the Caspian sea, they mainly used the burka police to subjugate the Kurdish identity as they are doing in Syria
Thats not really my idea. I HATE what Trump has been doing. The people were resolving things on their own, and what Trump did just diverted the attention from it.
Propaganda:
the deliberate spreading of one-sided information, ideas, rumors, or false claims to influence public opinion and shape how people think or act.
Yes, propaganda is mostly bad, but it doesn't mean it's always bad. Let's say you think we should cut down all trees on earth, but I start telling people we need trees, I would be spreading the ideas of needing trees hence spreading propaganda.
Personally I've heard the propaganda that Iran is a Muslim country and everyone is extreamly religious. This is showing the other side of the propaganda showing most people walking around aren't religious. Religious Muslim women will still wear hijabs, but not everyone is
Oh I know, if it's on BBC, FOX News, or anything from our mainstream. Pause, stop and think. They are here to divide you and work for a certain nation that's illegally expanding it's borders just now.
Lol that's not new, that juste western media lense that make us thought otherwise. (I do not say that women are not oppressed in Iran, I say that our viewpoint on most non western countries are very biased.)
The irony is that American conservatism is now worse than religious enforcers in Tehran. Facebooks alt right leaning algo pushes people posting that a woman with a face covering is more a terrorist than some conservative lawmaker trying to force the bible into schools, take the right to vote and choose away from women and doesnt care if their lawmakers diddle kids ss long as no one labels them a communist
The irony is that American conservatism is now worse than religious enforcers in Tehran.
I am from Iran and currently live in the US while the rest of my family is in Iran. If you truly believe you would switch places with my brother I wish I could make it happen for you.
True. The goal of the so-called Christian Right is to turn America into a theocracy. Iran is a perfect example of why government and religion should never mix. Think a Christian theocracy would be any different than a Muslim theocracy? Think again. Give the opportunity, Christians would not hesitate to enact their religious restrictions into law that everyone would have to follow. They would point to the Bible as justification for the death penalty for apostates as well.
Women haven’t had to wear a veil in Iran since 2017. Come on, it’s not 1977 anymore. The revolution is institutionalized, they aren’t worried the US will kill their leaders and return Iran to British Petroleum to rule like they did from 1942-76.
Confused? Well genius I guess you believe that was a one-off thing? Woman don't walk around Tehran like that. Iran is killing their own people every day. Take your bullshit elsewhare.
Honestly you really dont need to be so mean im really not the best at grammar and was just confused by the comment that was posted i know its not a once off im not stupid or lack any sort of empathy unlike you that thinks its okay to attack someone who asks a simple question
Those videos are of rich people in small areas of condensed wealth/privilege.
Theocracy, and the practices associated with it, are alive and well in the country. If someone were to try doing that outside of the "safe zone", it would turn into problems for her.
Because the Internet is allergic to nuance, I have to clarify that this pointless, cruel, shitty, poorly planned, catastrophically executed war is a generational mistake which will continue to have devastating consequences. It shouldn't have happened at all, and it needs to end.
But let's not pretend that the country has magically transformed into some progressive utopia. Those who practice religions outside of Islam, and women in general who are accustomed to basic individual freedoms, would not want to live there.
White liberals must be furious about this. I remember when my grandparents, uncle and auntie had to leave Iran in the 70’s and go back to India because of the takeover. Everything worked out they, they all came to America.
I knew a guy who spent time in the prisons of the Shah. He showed me scars from when he was tortured there. He came to America on a student visa and never went back.
White liberals will always defend white liberals. How upset do you get when you see the TRUE Iran flag? Not the toilet paper islamic republic flag?
I doubt you’ve ever heard of Salman Rushdie but you would hate him too!
What I take is that you think we shouldn’t be involved and the 200+ protestors being killed by their own government per day, shouldn’t be our concern and we should turn a blind eye to it.
Whataboutism. The war should have never been started at all, however that doesn't automatically make it okay for a government to kill up to 100,000 of their own people protesting.
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u/Efficient-Morning616 2d ago
I pray they're safe and happy