THESIS: “Should the obligation for women in Iran to wear a hijab in public be abandonned?”
At present women in Iran are forced to cover themselves up whenever they leave their private zone, but that is truly a restriction to their freedom. Therefore I have asked myself if it should be optional for women in Iran to choose for themselves whether and how much they want to cover their bodies and faces in public. In the following I am going to state my opinion on that:
The hijab discussion in Iran is very closely linked to some other delicate issues that the Iranian people have to deal with for some decades now. Mainly the lack of keeping human rights and other basic political and/or religious concepts which we in our modern western society take for granted.

In my conceit the hijab obligation is a deprivation of freedom. For example freedom of self-fulfillment . In a multiethnic state like Iran with about 78 million inhabitants, in which the youth captures 2/3 of the total population, it is very likely that the Iranian governance which is based on conservative, shiitic muslim sharia law does NOT represent the minds of all Iranian people. These people should have the opportunity to pursue self-development after their own values and beliefs. That is preconditioned that their environment is not physically or mentally injured/insulted by that. Wearing a hijab is an example for such a value/rule. As I am a German citizen with persian/Iranian background I can say that in Iran (even if our western media and news show other than that) are a lot of people who are not as religious and radical as the minority which has the governantial power. I dare even say the majority feels oppressed or at least partly constricted by the sharia law. One obvious prove for example is one recent movement called “My stealthy freedom”. It started from an exile Iranian woman who lives in Europe