Yes, women started to be more liberal after the establishment of Gasht-e Ershad because two fucking decades had passed since the time of Islamic Revolution Committees and how they harassed people in public.
Things change, Salar. I know it's hard for you to understand this concept, but societies change. The Iranian society is nothing like what it used to be 44 years ago. That's why I said that the future leader of Iran should understand the mentality of the newer generations. Even with Gasht-e Ershad, women will become more and more liberal and anti-hijab as time passes by unless they're given the choice to choose on their own. Only then the trend may change in favor of hijab. Shawnee worded it perfectly. People don't need someone to tell them what to do, they need someone to bleed for them and defend their interests.
Turkey is a perfect example of reversing or at least stopping liberalism. Turkish women used to be way more secular and liberal before Abdullah Gul and Erdogan. My family who have been to Turkey countless times since decades ago until now tell me that Turkish people have become relatively more Islamic than they were before. I don't care about the reason, but it clearly wasn't because the Turkish government forced them to wear hijab.
I know you said you were much older than me, but I'm still old enough to remember the time when the police forcefully entered people's homes like savages to destroy and confiscate satellite dishes. Nobody does that anymore. You know why? Because now they have realized that it will never work. The issue of compulsory hijab is the same.
I guess you did not read my previous comment then.
Iranians like other peoples do not determine their lifestyles simply on their own. It is in fact quite a naive thing to assume, since the impact of cultural soft power and social engineering is very real and can be absolutely overwhelming.
Regarding Iran, first of all it's not so that an overwhelming majority oppose current hejab laws. It's just that the voices of those who do are amplified by the enemy's (and its fifth column's) massive propaganda apparatus.
As for Turkey, no, Turkish people have not become more Islamic since the advent of the AKP. What changed is that the regime finally allowed a party to run and take over the government, which was more representative of the silent mass of practicing, working-class Moslem Turks who felt largely alienated by the radical secularism of previous administrations. However the broad tendency is and has been towards a reduction of religious practice, as articles shared by user Homajon show.
In Iran authorities have decided to stop enforcing the ban on satellite receivers not because it doesn't work but by pure political choice. It's not that complicated to make it work, it only supposes a larger set of measures to be taken as I explained in my previous post.
I can't see this compulsory hijab rule staying alive for long. The government also doesn't seem to realize that this rule only benefits Iran's core enemies.
In fact removing the rule will help Iran's enemies much more. See my previous post as to why.
As for tourism, it is a scourge actually. If the goal is to accelerate cultural uprooting of Iranians and dilution of Iranian civilization and national specificity into the global melting pot, then promoting mass tourism is definitely the way to go.
