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Women in Iran have endured laws restricting what they can do and wear for decades, but some are now starting to defy those rules. CBC’s senior international correspondent Margaret Evans went to Tehran and met some of the women refusing to wear the hijab, part of what they hope will be a wider societal change.
The face of Tehran has been undergoing an extraordinary transformation in recent months, some neighbourhoods seeming to channel Beirut as much as the capital of the Islamic Republic where headscarves — or hijabs — have been mandatory for women for 45 years.
Less than three years after the brutal crackdown on the protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody for an alleged dress code violation, a growing number of women are daring to bare their heads in public.
They’re not a majority, but on any given day in north Tehran’s popular …
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