- Mid Week - Hasmukh Gajjar
- In the 1970s, 30 to 35 percent of Iranian university students were women. Girls could wear tight-fitting jeans, mini skirts, and short-sleeved tops. Iranian women in swimsuits or bikinis sit with men on Caspian Sea beaches
Christine Amanpour, a female journalist of the American news channel CNN, was refused an interview by the President of Iran, Ibrahim Reisi. There is a right to refuse but the reason behind it needs to be understood. Christine, a female journalist of Iranian origin, was born in Britain and raised in Tehran, the capital of Iran. She can speak and understand Persian fluently. Ibrahim Reisi wanted the woman who was interviewed to be wearing a hijab. Therefore, all arrangements were made, but the revelation had to be canceled in the last 40 minutes. Christine Amanpour also refused to answer questions with Reese while wearing a hijab. On the social networking site, he wrote that I politely declined. We are in New York. There is no law or tradition regarding hijab here.
Covering international events, Christine followed the local laws by wearing a hijab-type headscarf whenever she went to the Middle East to receive revelations from leaders. However, in New York, he gave a clear indication that the mind of the orthodox Iranian President will not go as he pleases. The event has a symbolic significance as women in Iran today strive to discard the hijab. Iran's conservative regime has highlighted the importance of wearing the hijab outside of Iran. Iran's anti-hijab protests have once again caught the world's attention. More than 50 people have died in incidents related to the Hijab protests. The echoes of the death of a 22-year-old woman named Mehsa Amini, who came out to protest against the hijab in Iran, have reverberated around the world. A resident of the city of Sakiz in Kurdistan province of Iran, the girl came to Tehran with many dreams, but in return it was her turn to lose her life.
Islamic revolution took place in Iran in 1979. What the world calls the Arab revolution started with this Islamic revolution in Iran. With this revolution, the Pahlavi dynasty came to an end in Iran on February 11, 1979. Its last ruler Mohammad Raja Shah fled the country. After years of living abroad, Ayatollah Khomeini came to Iran. On April 1, 1979, Iran was declared an Islamic nation due to overwhelming popular support. In December 1979, he prepared a new constitution and declared himself the supreme religious leader. It was after the Iranian revolution that the Morality Police came into being to deal with social issues. The job of the moral police is to look after everything from women's hijab to men's and women's public behavior. According to an information, more than 36 lakh crimes related to hijab are registered every year. It is believed that Iran's government agency Gasht is the irshad moral police whose job it is to enforce the Islamic code of conduct in public. The agency works alongside the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and the paramilitary force Basij.
This moral police of Iran arrested the woman Mehsa Amini under the crime of having open hair and wearing loose clothes. A cow in a detention center died tragically in a hospital. This incident related to the protest against the hijab has become an international issue. Demonstrations have started taking place not only in Iran but also in other countries of the world. Taking a serious note in the UN, the Iranian government was forced to order a re-investigation into the circumstances of Mehsani's death. In some cities of Iran, women are flaunting the hijab in public after cutting their hair. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, on March 7, 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini made the hijab compulsory for women in offices and public places. At that time it was decreed that a woman who does not wear hijab will be considered naked. Since then the hijab has always been a burning issue in Iran. Thousands of Iranian women have been coming out to protest from time to time. Anti-Hijab movements have been taking place but the conservatives sitting in the government have never budged. This is how a democratic government works but it is well known that most of the decisions are taken by the supreme religious leader.
Women protesting the hijab in Iran must have seen a modern photo of their mother's childhood and realized that Iran was very modern before the Islamic revolution of 1979. The Pahlavi dynasty monarchy of that time emphasized on educating both men and women to run the country. In Tehran University, girls dressed in western clothes were seen strolling gracefully.
Women with flower-sized smiles would go window shopping in the streets of Tehran without hesitation. As if Iran was not a Middle East country but a country in Europe, there were signs everywhere. It is not that hijab did not exist but there was no law for women to cover their hair when going out of the house. Raja Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty who came to power in Iran on January 8, 1936 was greatly influenced by the life style of America and Britain. He banned women from wearing hijab under Kashaf e Hijab rule. If any woman was seen wearing hijab, the police would catch her. Raja Shah's son Mohammad Raza, who came to the throne in 1941, gave complete freedom to women to wear their favorite clothes. Not only women were given the right to vote, women also began to vote in parliament. By amending the Personal Law in 1967, women were given equal rights as men. The marriage age for women was raised from 13 to 18. Emphasis on educating young women resulted in 30 to 35 percent of female students in Iranian universities in the 1970s. Girls could wear tight-fitting jeans, mini skirts and short bikini tops. Iranian women could bathe in swimsuits on Caspian Sea beaches. Girls in bikinis sat with men on the beach. Women wore gown-like wedding dresses found in western civilization. Women were also present in clubs and bars. The girls publicly congratulated the royal ruler Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the 2500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy was celebrated. Women could freely participate in sports activities.
Currently, when Iran is burning in the fire of anti-hijab movement, the photos of modern Iranian women are being shared on social media. Women's picnics were an important part of Iranian culture. No Mehsani would have had to die if his head was open. A cloak-like garment that covers the body up to the head is no longer allowed for Iranian women. Iranian women have been in tears recalling Iran's pre-revolutionary liberal social model. In today's modern times, radical Iran has become a hell for women. For the first time after the Islamic revolution of 1979, a major revolution is taking shape in the form of hijab, which is being led by women.
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