An Iranian Netflix actress has stripped off her hijab and Islamic robes layer by layer until she is down to just underpants in a defiant protest against the regime’s authoritarian dress laws.
Elnaaz Norouzi, 30, shared a video in which she removed her state-mandated headscarf and went topless in solidarity with the mass demonstrations that have rocked Iran since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. years old, who was arrested by the moral police for “inappropriate dress”. ‘.
Norouzi, who stars in Sacred Games, told her two million followers: ‘I’m not promoting nudity, I’m promoting freedom of choice!’
Iranian Netflix actress Elnaaz Norouzi stripped off her hijab and Islamic robes layer by layer until she was down to just her boxer shorts.
The star shared a video in which she removed her state-mandated headscarf in solidarity with the mass demonstrations rocking Iran.
Norouzi, who stars in Sacred Games, told her two million followers: ‘I’m not promoting nudity, I’m promoting freedom of choice!’
The actress is first seen standing with only her hands, eyes, and feet visible, with the rest of her body covered in a black hijab and robes.
The star then removes each layer of clothing layer by layer and lets her hair down in a bold defiance of the authoritarian state’s dress laws for women.
Beneath her robe, she wears a dress, jeans, a shirt, a skirt, and a crop top, which she removes, leaving her standing in her underwear.
The star then goes further and removes a first layer of briefs and her bra, covering her chest with only her hands.
The star then removes each layer of clothing layer by layer and lets her hair down in a bold defiance of the authoritarian state’s dress laws for women.
Beneath her robe, she wears a dress, jeans, a shirt, a skirt, and a crop top, which she removes, leaving her standing in her underwear.
Norouzi previously worked as an international model for luxury brands, including Dior and Lacoste, and works in India and Germany.
Norouzi wrote in the Instagram caption: “Every woman should have the power to decide on her own body!”
Norouzi wrote in the Instagram caption: “Every woman, anywhere in the world, regardless of where she is, should have the right to wear what she wants and when or where she wants to wear it.”
‘No man or any other woman has the right to judge her or ask her to dress differently.
‘Everyone has different views and beliefs and you have to respect them.
‘Democracy means the power to decide… Every woman should have the power to decide on her own body!’
Norouzi previously worked as an international model for luxury brands like Dior and Lacoste and works in India and Germany.
The demonstrations were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, (pictured) a woman who died in the custody of Iran’s feared morality police.
She told India Today: ‘The situation in Iran is very bad at the moment… Women have been oppressed for more than 40 years. I was born in Tehran and I have seen it. I had to wear hijab from the beginning.
“I myself was arrested by the morality police a couple of years ago when I was in Tehran. I was taken for ‘re-education’ as they called it, where Mahsa was taken, where she must have been beaten.
‘It’s a scary place to live. You don’t want to live like this. You don’t want to leave home and not know if you’ll ever come back. It’s sad. We just don’t want our women, our people to live like this.
‘Anywhere in the world, women must be allowed to make their own decisions. It’s okay if they want to cover their hair or they don’t want to cover their hair. It should be a woman’s decision for herself. That is what the Iranian people expect.’
Norouzi joins a chorus of opposition to Iran’s clothing laws, with thousands of women removing their headscarves and cutting their hair in recent weeks.
Protesters and celebrities around the world have also cut their hair in solidarity with Iranian women.
The demonstrations that began last month at Ms. Amini’s funeral have become the biggest challenges to Iran’s clerical leaders in years, with demonstrators calling for the downfall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
This striking image shows schoolgirls raising their middle fingers at a portrait of Iran’s leaders in a classroom. Some of the girls are shown to have removed their scarves and are holding them above their heads as they make the gesture, their long hair falling down their backs.
Oscar-winning actors Marion Cotillard (right) and Juliette Binoche (left) film themselves cutting off strands of their hair in a video in support of protesters in Iran.
Ms. Amini’s death has sparked an unprecedented wave of protests across Iran.
She was arrested on September 13 for wearing ‘inappropriate dress’. She died three days later in a Tehran hospital.
Iran’s government insists Amini was not ill-treated, but her family says her body showed bruises and other signs of beatings after she was detained for violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
Subsequent videos have shown security forces beating and shoving female protesters, including women who have torn off their mandatory veils, or hijabs.
Authorities are waging a deadly crackdown on the riots, with more than 185 protesters feared dead in the violence, including 19 children.
The government says more than 20 members of the security forces have been killed.
Authorities are waging a deadly crackdown on the riots, with more than 185 protesters feared dead in the violence, including 19 children.
Iranian students chant slogans as they protest at Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology
Iranian authorities have said they will investigate the civilian deaths.
They have blamed the violence on a range of enemies, including armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents, the United States and Israel.
Dozens of universities are also currently on strike, with students playing a critical role in the protests.
In several Tehran neighborhoods, including Shahrak’e Gharb and Narmak, witnesses said people chanted “Death to Khamenei” from rooftops after dark.
Videos on social media showed demonstrations in the cities of Isfahan and Qom with protesters cursing and throwing stones at security forces.
The authorities’ crackdown on protesters has prompted some Western states to impose further sanctions on Iran, stoking diplomatic tensions at a time when talks to revive Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers are stalled.
