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Khamenei’s #MeToo Video Draws Critique of His Record on Women

Iran’s Supreme Leader has drawn scrutiny of his nation’s treatment of women by saying the head-covering they are compelled to wear in public can save women in the West from sexual assault. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei extolled what he described as the virtues of the hijab, an Islamic female head-covering, in a video posted to his Twitter account Wednesday. In a tweeted message accompanying the video, he said the hijab is an Islamic solution to what he called the “disaster of countless...

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