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Iranian women demonstrate for equal rights, March 12, 1979. Iran's Islamic Republic requires women to cover up in public. But many Iranian women have long played a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities as a younger generation wears their veils more loosely or skirts requirements for conservative dress International

Iran's anti-Hijab protests draw on long history of resistance

A young woman climbs to the top of a car in the middle of Mashhad, a conservative Iranian city famed for its Islamic shrines. She takes off her headscarf and starts chanting, Death to the dictator! Protesters nearby join in and cars honk in support.

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A woman cuts her hair outside Iranian embassy in Istanbul in support of Iranian women protesting against the hijab International
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Photo taken by an Iranian protestor, a trash bin is burning as anti-riot police arrive during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran. International
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