Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday his government had put off enforcing the country's strict ...

Snopes corresponded by email with Sogol Hariri, who said she was the daughter of Sima — the woman in the picture. She said her mother recalled a photographer captured the image in Tehran in 1971.

This act of defiance against the country's strict dress code, particularly in a sacred site, received strong public backlash and led to their detention, especially from the martyrs' families.

In late 2022, Iran was rocked by a wave of mass protests following the death in custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly violating the dress code.

Iranian police arrested two young women after publication of a video in which they danced in a Tehran cemetery without ...