Four years after Iran’s hijab protests: ‘The regime uses women for propaganda – with pink weapons’ – At the Women of the State conference, Iran experts Dr. Tamar Eilam Gindin and Hanna Jahanforooz described worsening conditions for women under the ayatollahs, saying the protest is about human rights and detainees were forced into pro-regime marches without hijabs | ynetglobal

The mass protest movement widely dubbed the “hijab protest” erupted in Iran in 2022 following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd who was detained by Tehran’s morality police — a body that enforces Islamic dress codes — for allegedly failing to properly wear a hijab.
“In the West they call it the ‘hijab protest,’ but the correct name is the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protest,” said Dr. Tamar Eilam Gindin, an Iran expert at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa, speaking at a Women of the State conference hosted by ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth in cooperation with Na’amat. “It is important to understand that the hijab is a symbol. The protest is not about clothing, it is about human rights, personal security and freedom of expression,” she added.