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Elnaz Rekabi returned to Iran after she competed without a hijab.
Amid anti-government protests in Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday said that the protests are not linked to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. He added that Iran was a “family-friendly” country and added that the protesters had called for the overthrow of the government. Raisi said this while addressing a meeting of the National Security…
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Solidarity rallies are held in the U.S. and Europe.
Amid anti-government protests, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the protests were a plot against Iran by its enemies. Raisi made the comments after a 22-year-old woman died in police custody last month. Raisi had said that the protests, which have spread to universities and high schools, were being provoked by the US and Israel.