Maryam Rajavi
No to Compulsory Veil, No to Compulsory Religion, No to Compulsory Governance by Maryam Rajavi include several speeches of Maryam Rajavi about the women and the repression of women in Iran. she says:At the social level, a key method of repression of women is carried out through imposing the compulsory hijab.There is a very significant political and historical experience in this regard. During the dark period of Reza Shah’sdictatorship, women’s head coverings were removed by force at gunpoint. Under the mullahs’ regime, women are once again beingoppressed, this time by imposing the compulsory hijab.Both dictatorships have denied women the freedom to choose their own clothing.The regime and its allies have tried to minimize the struggle for the regime’s overthrow, when women can achieve all their rights and freedoms. Instead, they have tried to replace it with the limited demand of freedom from Hijab. In thisway, they mislead the struggle to overthrow the regime.However, during the 2022 uprising, female protesters and students rejected all forms of dictatorship, both the shahand the mullahs. They wisely chanted, 'With or without the hijab, onward to the revolution.'In the Iranian Resistance, we have always reiterated, 'No to compulsory veil, No to compulsory religion and No to compulsory governance.'The women of Iran are aware, and they have experienced that violence and repression can be ended through the fight for freedom and equality. The slogan of Iran’s freedom- loving women is 'Women, Resistance, Freedom.' Iranian women have chosen to resist against this regime.
