Hard-liners have protested in Tehran against what they said was the flouting of the Islamic dress code that became compulsory after the 1979 revolution. The official news agency IRNA put the number of protesters at about 4,000. Every year thousands of women are detained or fined for not fully observing the hijab. President Hassan […]
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Hard-Liners Outraged Over U.S. Scholar’s Planned Burial In Iran
An American scholar who asked to be buried in the central Iranian city of Isfahan has been called “Western garbage” and a “CIA spy” by a local cleric amid an uproar by hard-liners who oppose the planned interment in the Islamic republic. “The people of Isfahan will not allow authorities to bury the body […]