Rock climber Elnaz Rekabi competed without a headscarf. She subsequently said it was unintientional.
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The protesters have been strongly supported by Iran’s actors, musicians and athletes who have been among those arrested, imprisoned and tortured.
Casting off oppression: women are taking off their compulsory hijab in protest against oppression.
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The hijab, which was forced on all Iranian women after the 1979 revolution, is a tool of oppression.
All smiles: Russian president Vladimir Putin, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Tehran, July 2022.
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This is not so much an alliance as a coalition of the isolated.
Ebrahim Raisi, seen here during a 2017 rally, is expected to win Iran’s presidential election.
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Ebrahim Raisi was declared the winner of Iran’s June 18 presidential election, which critics called rigged after his top opponents were disqualified.
A poster of Ebrahim Raisi, the conservative head of the judiciary, who is frontrunner to be Iran’s next president.
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Ahead of June 18 presidential elections, a new survey found that only around a quarter of Iranians plan to vote.
Two men watch Ebrahim Raisi, the conservative frontrunner in Iran’s elections, in a televised presidential debate.
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A supporter of Raisi at a rally in Tehran, Iran on May 16, 2017.
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President is not the most important leadership role in Iran. The election is not completely democratic. That said, there’s a pretty competitive contest happening.