Just north of Iran in Azerbaijan, which would be part of Iran today if Russia hadn't conquered it roughly 200 years ago, more than 99 percent of women dress like women everywhere else in the world. I spent a week there and saw fewer Islamic headscarves than I see in Seattle—just two during the entire week. I assumed the young women wearing them were probably foreigners. If they were locals, they were as far out of the mainstream as Zoroastrians are in America. There's a statue in the capital that shows a woman removing her headscarf. It has been there for more than 100 years.

Iran Unleashes the Morality Police (25 April 2016)