TEHRAN -- I am an Iranian woman living in Tehran. That may sound unpleasant and scary in the light of nationwide protests over the death in police custody of Mahsa Jina Amini, a young woman arrested in September 2022 for not wearing a government approved hijab (a strict version of the headscarf worn by some Muslim women). Yet, I have to say that being a woman in Iran is not as bad as it sounds.
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