President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yoghurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi'ite Muslim city.

Under Iran's Islamic sharia law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures. Violators have faced ...

Iran’s Raisi says hijab is the law as women face ‘yoghurt attack’ Iranian president says hijab is the law after viral video shows man throwing yoghurt at uncovered women in Mashhad ...

DUBAI – President Ebrahim Raisi said on April 1 that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yogurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi’ite Muslim city.