The Hijab is a headscarf meant to indicate modesty and religious adherence. In countries such as Iran, this is compulsory. Iran used to be a fairly progressive society before the 1979 revolution when Ayatollah Khomeini took over and imposed a severe, conservative form of Islam; including compulsory Hijab.
In December 2017, a young woman and mother of one called Vida Movahed took a public stand against the hijab in Tehran. She stood on a box, removed her hijab and waved it around on a stick. This resulted in a social media movement called #girls-enghelab-street. Movahed and many other women were arrested for their civil disobedience however they were also applauded and became the symbol for feminism in Iran.
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