The U.S. House has overwhelmingly approved several measures targeting Iran for its human rights record and placing restrictions on the country’s ability to import or export its expanding arsenal of weapons.
Iranian women, some without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarves, walk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. Iranians are marking the first anniversary of nationwide protests over the country’s mandatory headscarf law that erupted after the death of a young woman detained by morality police. An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf walks her dog at a park with graffiti against the government which is painted over in black, Monday, March 6, 2023.
A graffiti which reads in Farsi: “Woman Life Freedom” the key slogan of anti-government protests after the death of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini in the September 2022, while in the custody of the country’s morality police, for wearing her hijab too loosely, is written on the wall of a park in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. Iranian women, some without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarves, walk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.
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