Kermanshan- Iran's government has increased the dimension of pressure to impose the mandatory hijab during Ramadan. They shut down stores, pharmacies, and cafes that provided services to customers without hijab is another pressure on women.

While Iranian authorities, MPs and imams support violence against women, Iranian authorities have proposed new measures to enforce the compulsory wearing of the hijab in the country.

But despite all the pressures and repressions, the women of Kermanshah are determined not to wear hijab. They want to choose what they wear and decide on their own bodies.

These women follow the path of a historical resistance against coercion and imposition by showing up in the streets without the mandatory Hijab. They have waged a T historical resistance against coercion and imposition by taking to the streets without wearing hijab even if it means to risk their lives.

NuJINHA spoke to two of these women. Nahid (not her real name) is a 32-year-old working woman. She said: “I don't wear hijab because I don't believe in hijab, and I'm struggling to tell my society and my family that I'll never do something I don't like and believe in. It's time for women to get back their most basic rights and tell everyone that they cannot be forced to do anything. By building fear among people cannot make them give up on their rights.”

Another woman we interviewed was a young woman in her twenties who chose "Mahtab" as her nickname, she said: “The mandatory Hijab violates women’s rights in many ways; it causes women to lose their self-esteem, making them not believe in themselves, to feel they're isolated from society and feel humiliated because they think they are less valuable than men because of their physical differences. These all make hijab unbearable for me. My daily activities are no different from men's. Wearing a hijab prevents my activities. Women should go out, go to universities, work and go shopping without wearing hijab. The mandatory hijab steals my energy that I need. I have been waging a struggle for my rights without wearing a hijab.”