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In a bold protest, the woman was seen yelling at police officers and jumping on a car’s windshield in a busy street. The move was seen as a protest against Iran’s strict hijab rules.
A woman in Iran stripped naked and jumped on a police car in Mashhad. (Photo: X)
In a daring protest against Iran’s conservative regime, a shocking video has gone viral showing a woman stripping naked and jumping onto a police car. The video shows her shouting at officers from the hood of the car while refusing to move.
The incident took place in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. The video shared by Iranian journalist Masif Alinejad showed the woman climbed on the police car’s windshield, where she sat and spread her legs.
A male officer seemingly holding an automatic weapon appeared hesitant to touch the woman and detain her as she was naked. The woman was seen yelling and angrily thrusting her arms in the air as the clip ended.
A man claiming to be the woman’s husband reportedly said the woman has now been taken into care, The Sun reported citing local media. However, several posts on social media claimed she was protesting against Iran’s strict clothing rules for women.
Iran’s legislature passed a controversial strict new “chastity and hijab” bill in December that proposed harsher punishments for women and girls exposing their hair, arms and legs. The bill says that anyone found “naked, semi-naked, or wearing clothing deemed improper in public” can be arrested without question with a punishment of up to 15 years in prison.
However, the bill was put on hold after sparking international outrage from activist groups and human rights organisations who accused Iran of “seeking to entrench the already suffocating system of repression”.
In November last year, a young woman stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university in an apparent protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code, according to online videos and media reports.
A video posted on social media showed security guards at a branch of the Islamic Azad University detaining the unidentified woman. University spokesperson Amir Mahjob said on X that “at the police station,…it was found that she was under severe mental pressure and had a mental disorder”.
This incident follows the nationwide protests that erupted in 2022 after the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman who was arrested for allegedly violating the dress code. These protests saw women challenging the norms by removing their headscarves and, in some cases, burning them.
