Iranian Men Don Hijab, Post Selfies to Champion Women’s Cause

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, women in Iran have been forced to cover their head with a headscarf.

Men adorn the hijab to support women. (Photo: Twitter/masih.alinejad)

Iranian men are posting pictures wearing the hijab to challenge the Iranian patriarchal laws that force women to wear a headscarf, hijab or be punished.

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the morality or religious police in Iran have been imposing strict dress codes on women and it’s the men who have finally decided to join the women in their fight for change.

Masih Alijenad, an Iranian journalist started the campaign with the hashtag #meninhijab to fight the morality police and the humiliation that forces women to wear the hijab.

Thousands of men across Iran have been posting pictures on the Facebook page “My Stealthy Freedom”, an online movement also started by Masih that challenges Iran’s strict dress code.

Iranian journalist Masih Alijenad, currently residing in New York also started the campaign “My Stealthy Freedom”. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Masih Alijenad)

As the movement picked up pace, men posted pictures with their wives, sisters and daughters.

After years of women fighting for their rights in Iran, men have for the first time come out in such large numbers to fight for the sufferings of their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters.

This scream for freedom of expression may not reap immediate results but will surely leave a mark in Iranian women’s long struggle.