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#Iran movie proud license

I was struck when a relative told me she’d received so many fines for driving without a headscarf that her driver’s license was about to be suspended. I felt ridiculous in a long black robe and a navy headscarf, as though I were a tourist who’d read all the wrong travel books.

I was struck on a round of bureaucratic visits to government offices last summer by how casually and liberally young women dressed in even these traditionally austere official outposts.

In the past two or three years, young women effectively already canceled the compulsory hijab. I can only conclude that when a generation’s aspirations for freedom appear tantalizingly within reach, the more humiliating the remaining restrictions seem, and the less daunting the final stretch of resistance feels.īuy a print of TIME’s Heroes of the Year cover, featuring the Women of Iran The average age of arrested protesters is notably low-Iranian officials estimate as young as 15. 16, setting off the most sustained uprising in the 43-year history of the Islamic Republic. I’ve often wondered what has made them so rebellious, because their ferocious character was evident well before 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini, arrested at a metro station by the morality police who enforce the dress code, died after being held in their custody on Sept. They are quite unlike those who came before them sometimes they feel more like transnational Gen Z than Iranians: they are vegans, they de-Islamicize their names, they don’t want children. The movement they’re leading is educated, liberal, secular, raised on higher expectations, and desperate for normality: college and foreign travel, decent jobs, rule of law, access to the Apple Store, a meaningful role in politics, the freedom to say and wear whatever. These younger women are now in the streets.