Their immediate cause is Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old student, who died after morality police beat her, apparently for wearing a loose hijab. But their grievances are fed by four decades of religious strictures that have fallen heaviest on women
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThe social curbs are the latest in a wave of measures designed to shore up the Islamic Republic as a successor is found for the octogenarian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In recent years the Ayatollah has purged his regime of reformers and consolidated all branches of government under trusted zealots such as Ebrahim Raisi, his hardline president.
The battle over morality has become more technological since the revolution of 1979, when Islamist thugs shouted “” . These days the authorities are planning to use facial-recognition software to detect the underdressed on the metro and an icon was recently added to the taxi app, Snapp!, to report female passengers who are improperly attired.
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