Women in Iran

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sports climber Elnaz Rekabi has become the latest symbol of the anti-government protests, begun and led by women in Iran. She competed in the Asian Championships in South Korea with her hair uncovered, breaking Iran’s strict dress code requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. Although Ms Rekabi later said her hijab had fallen off "inadvertently", the images had already gone viral. We hear from an Iranian female footballer who was in a similar position a few years ago and speak to a chess referee who took off her own headscarf during a tournament in 2020.

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0:00.0	I'm Jean Lee.
0:01.1	And I'm Jeff White.
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0:35.2	Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service.
0:38.3	And this is BBC OS Conversations on Women in Iran.
0:44.3	For more than a month now, women across Iran have been risking their lives, protesting,
0:50.4	defying the authorities with chance of women, life, freedom.
0:56.3	We'll hear from women in the country and speak to Iranian journalists about the courage that they need
1:02.0	to report on what's going on.
1:03.8	The intelligence summit, my father.
1:06.4	First of all, they told him that they know that I live, what I do in the US,
1:11.2	and at any point they can put me in a bag and bring me back to Iran.
1:15.3	That's the sound of the crowd at Tehran's International Airport.
1:23.5	They were greeting El Nazreka B on her return from the Asian Championships in South Korea.
1:28.8	You might remember who she is.
1:29.9	She's the sports climber who competed with her hair uncovered.
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