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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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Woman in Iran removes headscarf while walking through shopping mall. Cites “white Wednesdays” campaign. Credits campaign promoted by US-based activist
@AlinejadMasih
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توانا Tavaana
@Tavaana
نه فقط سكوي خيابان انقلاب كه تمام شهر تمام ايران مال ماست. کسی که قانونی ناعادلانه را می‌شکند، بیشترین احترام را به "قانون" گذاشته است. - مارتین لوترکینگ نامه مارتین لوترکینگ از زندان بیرمنگام goo.gl/y9eQsn #چهارشنبه_های_سفید #دختران_انقلاب #نه_به_حجاب_اجبارى
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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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WOW. This is so powerful and gets at the essence of what protest in Iran is all about: A mohajabe woman in Tehran stands up for the right of other women not to wear hijab.
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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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Imagine being so racist and contemptuous of Iranian women that you think any political gesture they make must be choreographed by white men in Washington.
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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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Thread from last year is a reminder that this struggle has persisted for decades, something unhinged "anti-imperialist" clowns and Islamic extremists would love to forget
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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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Flashback: 1979 anti-hijab rally in Tehran, Iran, a day before theocratic regime forcibly and violently began imposing veil on women
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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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Well said
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Timur Kuran
@timurkuran
Reza Shah Pahlavi banned Iranian women from wearing a headscarf in 1937. This contributed to the resentments that exploded in 1978. Khomeini required women to wear a headscarf in 1979. Resentments have been brewing ever since. They will contribute to the theocracy's demise.
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Rambod Behboodi
@GenevaTradeLaw
The use of the term "farib-khorde" ("the seduced") in reference to the arrested women is, in itself, interesting. In my memory - my vernacular is not as good as it was - the Persian term used to refer to women who were caught having sex outside marriage ...