'A life was taken from parents for a headscarf. No words. I have no words.'
Iran's President, Ebrahim Raisi, told a news conference at the U.N. meeting of the General Assembly in New York, that her death will be investigated.
Katebi says U.S. sanctions, which have been in place since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, mainly hurt ordinary Iranians. She says the sanctions are then used by Iranian authorities to justify increased domestic repression. Compulsory hijab in Iran was imposed in 1983, four years after the revolution. Some analysts suggest it has been used as a way to control a population, which even then, was growing restless from Western sanctions. Opposition to the headscarf is on a long list of public grievances.
Many foreign policy experts argue that relaxing laws on hijab worries Iran's top brass because it could trigger a domino effect for more demands, even though it has support from some in Iran's ruling clerical class.Throughout several days of protest in Iran, women have burned their headscarf and cut their hair as a form of protest.
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