Iranian Women Took Off Their Compulsory Islamic Veils.
Now a Mullah Is Talking About “Killing Them.”
A prominent Iranian mullah has called for unveiled women to be beaten and "killed if they resist". The statement is alarming in itself. But in Iran, where women have spent decades resisting state-enforced religious rules and have repeatedly faced violence for doing so, it carries an even darker significance.
Resistance to compulsory hijab began almost as soon as the Islamic Republic was established. In March 1979, only weeks after the collapse of Iran’s secular monarchy, thousands of Iranian women took to the streets to protest attempts to impose Islamic dress.
Compulsory veiling was eventually enforced in the early 1980s, backed by criminal penalties, morality policing, intimidation and violence. Yet resistance never disappeared. Over the following decades, women continuously pushed against these restrictions: showing more hair, wearing shorter coats and brighter clothes, publicly protesting compulsory hijab, and eventually removing the headscarf altogether.
Then came September 2022. Twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules. Her death ignited the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. Women and girls stood at the center of nationwide protests, removing and burning their headscarves and openly challenging the state’s authority over their bodies and lives.
The price was enormous. The UN Fact-Finding Mission documented unlawful killings, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual and gender-based violence and other grave abuses during the crackdown, concluding that some violations amounted to crimes against humanity. Hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands detained.
Yet something remarkable happened: many Iranian women did not put the hijab back on. By 2025, unveiled women had become a common sight in Tehran and other cities. What once almost guaranteed confrontation with morality police increasingly became an everyday act of civil disobedience.
The Islamic government responded with surveillance cameras, threatening text messages, vehicle confiscations, prosecutions, business closures, fines, imprisonment and even flogging. Amnesty International described the campaign as one of “terrorizing women and girls” through coa Mullah Is Talking About “Killing Them.”nstant surveillance and policing.
That is the background to the latest threat. Kharrazi, a hardline mullah associated with Hezbollah of Iran, has called for tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters to take to the streets, beat unveiled women and kill them if they resist. He went further, saying government personnel who tried to stop them should also be killed.
Iranian women have already endured arrests, beatings, surveillance, imprisonment and death in a struggle over a simple principle: The governemnt or religion should not dictate what a woman must wear.
#MandatoryHijab #HijabInIran #StateMurder #Iran #womanofiran
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Now a Mullah Is Talking About “Killing Them.”
A prominent Iranian mullah has called for unveiled women to be beaten and "killed if they resist". The statement is alarming in itself. But in Iran, where women have spent decades resisting state-enforced religious rules and have repeatedly faced violence for doing so, it carries an even darker significance.
Resistance to compulsory hijab began almost as soon as the Islamic Republic was established. In March 1979, only weeks after the collapse of Iran’s secular monarchy, thousands of Iranian women took to the streets to protest attempts to impose Islamic dress.
Compulsory veiling was eventually enforced in the early 1980s, backed by criminal penalties, morality policing, intimidation and violence. Yet resistance never disappeared. Over the following decades, women continuously pushed against these restrictions: showing more hair, wearing shorter coats and brighter clothes, publicly protesting compulsory hijab, and eventually removing the headscarf altogether.
Then came September 2022. Twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules. Her death ignited the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. Women and girls stood at the center of nationwide protests, removing and burning their headscarves and openly challenging the state’s authority over their bodies and lives.
The price was enormous. The UN Fact-Finding Mission documented unlawful killings, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual and gender-based violence and other grave abuses during the crackdown, concluding that some violations amounted to crimes against humanity. Hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands detained.
Yet something remarkable happened: many Iranian women did not put the hijab back on. By 2025, unveiled women had become a common sight in Tehran and other cities. What once almost guaranteed confrontation with morality police increasingly became an everyday act of civil disobedience.
The Islamic government responded with surveillance cameras, threatening text messages, vehicle confiscations, prosecutions, business closures, fines, imprisonment and even flogging. Amnesty International described the campaign as one of “terrorizing women and girls” through coa Mullah Is Talking About “Killing Them.”nstant surveillance and policing.
That is the background to the latest threat. Kharrazi, a hardline mullah associated with Hezbollah of Iran, has called for tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters to take to the streets, beat unveiled women and kill them if they resist. He went further, saying government personnel who tried to stop them should also be killed.
Iranian women have already endured arrests, beatings, surveillance, imprisonment and death in a struggle over a simple principle: The governemnt or religion should not dictate what a woman must wear.
#MandatoryHijab #HijabInIran #StateMurder #Iran #womanofiran
@Tavaana_TavaanaTech
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