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Iran President says hijab is Law as unveiled women face attack

Iranian women walk through rain in a flower market, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, March 16, 2023. [VOA]

President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yogurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi'ite Muslim city.

Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules. Security forces violently put down the revolt.

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