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After protests by Air France’s female flight attendants over having to wear the obligatory veil on Iranian soil, the company announced that it will no longer be mandatory for them to serve on flights to Iran. Meanwhile, this issue has reignited discussion in Iranian media and social networks.
Ever since the early days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian women who oppose the veil have protested it in many ways. However, this matter has yet to become one of the main demands of women's rights activists inside Iran. Indeed, it can perhaps be argued that the ideological, traditional and religious origins of the veil have made it difficult for women’s rights activists to fight it.
