
One of Khomeini’s first actions, which occurred just a few days after the 1979 Revolution against the Iranian monarchy, was to make the hijab mandatory. He strongly supported the slogan, “Either the veil or a hit on the head.”This law has been in place for the past 40 years under the clerical rule, but as societal unrest grows, we observe an increase in arrests and executions as well as a recent wave of attacks and harassment against women in Iran under the guise of defending the law requiring them to wear the hijab.
![hossein-ali-nayyeri “In those special circumstances, the country was in a crisis, meaning if it were not for the firm decision-making of [regime’s first supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini] we would be in completely different conditions."](https://stopfundamentalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/hossein-ali-nayyeri.jpg)











