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During Iran’s election campaign, the moderate presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has criticized the country’s strict headscarf policy for women. “I promise that I will stop this behaviour that is happening to our daughters and sisters on the streets,” the former health minister said in front of hundreds of supporters in Tehran on Sunday. Recently, the so-called guardians of morality have once again stepped up their efforts to enforce the compulsory wearing by women of headscarves on the streets. “I promise the teachers and students who were expelled from university for no reason that I w…

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