Iranian women have long history of resistance, but activists say Iran's current wave of protests are different from previous unrest.
A young woman climbs to the top of a car in the middle of Mashhad, a conservative Iranian city famed for its Islamic shrines. She takes off her headscarf and starts chanting,"Death to the dictator!" Protesters nearby join in and cars honk in support.
People are also reading… Iran's Islamic Republic requires women to cover up in public, including wearing a"hijab" or headscarf that is supposed to completely hide the hair. Many Iranian women, especially in major cities, have long played a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities, with younger generations wearing loose scarves and outfits that push the boundaries of conservative dress.
"People still are coming to the streets to find one meter of space to shout their rage but they are immediately and violently chased, beaten and taken into custody, so they try to mobilize in four- to five-person groups and once they find an opportunity they run together and start to demonstrate," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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. "What you're seeing today is not something that just happened. There's been a long history of women protesting and defying authority" in Iran. Many women wore a"roosari" or casual headscarf that was"part of traditional clothing rather than having a very religious meaning to it."
In 2008, Momeni was arrested and kept in solitary confinement for a month at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, after working on a documentary about women activists and the 1 Million Signatures Campaign that aimed to reform discriminatory laws against women. She was later released and joined the 2009"Green Movement" protests."People are done with the hope of internal reform. People not wanting hijab is a sign of them wanting the system to change fundamentally," Momeni said.
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