A woman in Iran has been arrested after a video of her knocking the turban of a mullah in the country was published by opponents of the ayatollah regime online. The woman appears to have confronted the man after he hit her with his cane and demanded she fix her head covering.
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In video of the incident, which transpited in the Iranian city of Qom, one of the holiest cities in Shiiite Islam, the woman can be seen tussling with the man, knocking off his turban and stomping on it in anger. She is then seen chasing off another religious man who tries to intervene.
The woman was arrested by Iran's morality police, who enforce legislation requiring head coverings for women in public places, after the video was shared online.
Iranian-American political and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad wrote on her My Stealthy Freedom Facebook page, where Iranian women share images of themselves without hair coverings in an effort to effect change: "An Iranian woman used her right of self-defense against a mullah who hit her with his stick and told her to fix her headscarf. Conclusion; mullah and turban put in their place.
"At the end of the video you see one of them mullahs running away. ##MyCameraIsMyWeapon."
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