JUSTICE FOR IRAN
On the eve of International Women’s Day, just 24 days after the 1979 revolution was declared victorious and a constitution was yet to be adopted, the revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Khomeini banned the entry of women without hijab into government offices. Although thousands of women in Tehran showed their opposition through three days of demonstrations, by 1982 Islamic hijab was in full enforcement.
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