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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Maziar Motamedi

Iranian women post images without hijabs despite crackdown

An Iranian woman walks in a street in Tehran, Iran. Iranian authorities are planning to crack down on women not wearing the hijab after anti-government protests died down [File: Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Scores of Iranian women are posting images of themselves online while not wearing the hijab, as a police deadline for cracking down on violators of the country’s compulsory dress code is approaching.

Social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram – which Iranians access by circumventing government blocks – have been flooded in recent days with images of mostly young women posing wearing their garments of choice in Iran’s warming spring weather.

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