In a significant act of resistance against the imposition of the hijab, Iranian women are willingly disobeying the country’s strict regulations mandating them to cover their hair in public. Iranian women are seen removing their hijabs in protest against the strict imposition of the hijab by the Islamic regime of Iran.

Additionally, the women are sharing pictures of themselves taking off their hijabs.
President Ebrahim Raisi, a cleric backed by the nation’s ultra-conservative religious elite, called the current backlash to the hijab law “an organised promotion of moral corruption in Islamic culture.”

On July 12, which the government designated as “Hijab and Chastity Day,” events were held to support laws requiring women to cover their heads. Meanwhile, Iranian women take off their headscarves to protest the day, and men have been standing with them.

Iranian human rights organisations have urged women to openly remove their veils and defy the Islamic dress code as the nation’s Islamic law. Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist, author, and women’s rights advocate who has been fighting to end the practice of making Islamic veils for women a requirement in Islamic countries, backed the initiative and declared that “Iranian women will shake the clerical regime by removing their hijab and taking to the streets across Iran.”

The so-called “morality police” allegedly asked that employees of banks, government agencies, and public transit services ignore women wearing the so-called “bad hijab”, which resulted in the detention of women. In various Iranian cities, “morality police” have been keeping an eye on medical facilities and educational institutions to ensure sure women are covering their heads.
Several adolescent girls and others were recently imprisoned by Iranian authorities for failing to wear hijabs at a skateboarding competition in the Southern Iran city of Shiraz.

The Islamic law, which has been in force in Iran since the 1979 revolution, requires women to cover their heads, necks, and hair with a hijab.

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