Mohsen still hasn't come back.
“With my wife, we traveled with the airline Mahan Air to Dubai.
Normally, before taking off from Tehran, there is always the announcement: “please respect the law, keep the hijab”.
But this time, on the way there and back, we heard nothing on the plane where most of the women were without headscarves.
And at Tehran airport, it was the same.
The women have won”
, welcomes this trader, joined by telephone, who, however, wonders.
“A kind of freedom is established, but will it last?
Today,
the mullahs
do not react.
But aren't they waiting for the moment to come back, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow?”
The anecdote illustrates the fragility of a paradoxical situation.
After four months of a revolt against theocratic power, launched by young Iranian women after the death of an 18-year-old Kurdish woman killed for having worn the veil incorrectly, the cause of women, until then forced to wear the hijab in public , has progressed.
Nevertheless…
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