Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : In Iran, the hijab -- and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some -- has long been a political symbol as well, particularly after becoming mandatory in the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
50% : Iran and neighboring Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are the only countries where the hijab remains mandatory for women.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE GAZETTE
47% : Iran remains squeezed by sanctions and faces ever-rising tensions with the West over its rapidly advancing nuclear program and its aid to regional militant groups, including a renewed focus on its relationship with Hamas following that group's unprecedented attack on and war with Israel.
40% : They also demanded an independent investigation by the United Nations' fact-finding mission on Iran, citing the theocracy's use of pressure on victims' families and state TV's history of airing hundreds of coerced confessions.
37% : The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini which sparked nationwide protests at the time.
36% : Geravand's Oct. 1 injury and now her death threaten to reignite that popular anger, particularly as women in Tehran and elsewhere still defy Iran's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, law as a sign of their discontent with Iran's theocracy.
34% : "Geravand's injury also came as Iran has put its morality police -- whom activists implicate in Amini's death -- back on the street, and as lawmakers push to enforce even stricter penalties for those flouting the required head covering.
32% : Since those large-scale protests subsided, many women in Tehran could be seen without the hijab in defiance of the law.
28% : ""During the last 28 days, the Islamic Republic of Iran tried to distort the narrative of the government murder of this teenage girl," the group alleged.

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