Two years after the death of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian Kurd arrested by the morality police, and the protest movement that followed, Iranian society is experiencing a profound change.
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With our correspondent in Tehran, Siavosh Ghazi
In the streets of Tehran, but also in provincial cities, we see more and more Iranian women without veils. A new development is that in recent weeks we have even seen women in skirts, on motorbikes, or on foot without the police intervening. Young people also walk around with short sleeves or their navels showing. Scenes that were unimaginable before the protest movement that shook the country two years ago.
” Pressure from the government still exists »
These changes occurred in Iran while the government has increased its repressive measures, as Faezh, a young Iranian woman in her thirties, recounts. The pressure from the authorities still exists. They close cafes and restaurants, shops to create restrictions and force us to wear the veil, but people’s gaze has become more combative. ” she said.
Drivers also receive fines for not respecting the veil while driving. This also happens in some sports centers or for some sportswomen who have received warnings, as explained by Sanaz, who has a sports club. One day, I was called to tell me that I was guilty for sharing photos of my students without veils on social networks. They demanded that I delete them and I was forced to do so. Now, if I share posts on social networks, if I share photos of my students, it is with filters so that they are not recognizable. ” she said. But despite these measures, the evolution of society now seems irreversible.
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