In a BBC article by Nassim Hatam, Shiva Rahbaran comments on the recent protest movement by Iranian women against compulsory hijab. “Since the Islamic Revolution, all efforts to quell women’s resistance have paradoxically only strengthened and widened it. What started out as a protest movement by secular middle-class women, has now spread to the less affluent, religious social strata, which had served as the backbone of the Islamic regime in the past.”
BBC: Iranian protest movement against compulsory hijab
