Iranian women defy efforts by hardliners to enforce wearing of hijab
One member of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad-Taqi Naqdali, said this week: “We see what the state of nudity and public vice is like in our midst…Israel and America cannot destroy us, but this decay that has plagued our religious culture and is spreading nudity in a disastrous and widespread manner in society will.
Iranian authorities first began urging women to wear the hijab after the 1979 revolution.
The relentless state media campaign on the issue often cites prayer leaders who insist the hijab is part of Iranian cultural identity and that women should observe modesty.
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