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almosthere
In many interviews people keep saying that in Islamic countries the Hijab is totally optional, but that the woman want to wear it.

Now we're finding out the woman that don't want to wear it get shot.

tty456
Many times it is not "optional" within a family or even in public. Men in those countries often enforce this.
9dev
Overgeneralisations like these are just lazy, and most importantly not helpful. There are a lot of predominantly Muslim regions in the world. Reducing all of them to the Iranian regime is like concluding Christian women all wear string Tangas because that’s what you’ve seen on a beach in Brazil.
jananas
I know this is just a troll. Nevertheless: Iran was always known to enforce some level of covering a woman’s hair. There are other Islamic countries that do so, some more strictly then it has been the case in Iran. And there are plenty which don‘t, like Egypt, Turkey or Marocco.
Bender
Former Iran used to be mini-skirts and it was not that long ago. Could it feasibly or realistically go back to that? Asking for a friend.
esalman
> Former Iran used to be mini-skirts

You mean just in a few cities like Tehran and only in 60s and 70s?

tim-tday
Isn’t 90% of the population in Tehran?
ReptileMan
The rumors of the death of the Iranian theocracy unfortunately have been grossly exaggerated.
bryanlarsen
standard archive.is workaround not working for me.
dyauspitr
If you hear on the ground reports it doesn’t look like the islamists are going anywhere.
tim-tday
Yeah it seems the leadership’s response to the Portugal’s been to brutally beat the protesters to death. Tens of thousands of people have been killed.
ck2
The pile of 10,000+ bodies pretty much deems otherwise?

mothers went out with their children knowing their children would be murdered

to get bodies back from the morgue the regime makes the families pay for the bullets used to kill them

US telling protestors they would be covered and then doing nothing was beyond cruel

Imagine if North Korea had internet access (or even just electricity)