Iran Conservatives Hit Back at Facebook Campaign on Headscarves

Iran’s conservatives are hitting back at an online campaign in which Iranian women share pictures of themselves removing their headscarves, denouncing the move as sinful and setting up a rival Facebook page.

Kazem Sedighi, a cleric delivering today’s Friday prayer sermon in Tehran, criticized “corrupt messages circulating on the internet and getting through to Iranian families” and “instances in which headscarves had been taken off.”