Statement by the Hekmatist Party The Hijab Has Fallen, Now It’s the Turn of the Entire Regime!

The Hijab Has Fallen, Now It’s the Turn of the Entire Regime!

A while ago, Pasdar (Revolutionary Guard) Saeed Ghasemi confessed: “The Mahsa Amini uprising defeated us.” A confession that, had it not come from the mouth of one of the Islamic regime’s assassins, some might still not believe that the Islamic regime has been defeated in one of its most fundamental ideological and political pillars: the imposition of the Islamic hijab on women. But it is not just Ghasemi; Mohammad-Reza Bahonar, a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, has also stated that the hijab law will no longer be enforced. Pezeshkian has also admitted that no one will be arrested or fined for the hijab. These are not merely tactical retreats; they are confessions to the complete bankruptcy of a project that began with the slogan “Either the headscarf or a beating” and is now being buried with that very headscarf.

Since the first day of the Islamic Republic’s rule, the hijab was not a “covering” but the black flag of the political Islam’s dominance, the flag of sexual apartheid. The hijab placed on women’s heads was a sign of ownership over a woman’s autonomy and, through it, ownership over the entire society. The Islamic hijab was the backbone of the Islamic regime’s system of servitude; they tried to use it to make women obedient, stifle the family, and crush society. Today, that very backbone is practically broken. When women walk unveiled in the streets, subways, universities, and factories, Islamic law is practically dead, even if groups within the ruling establishment still protest these confessions.

This victory is the product of years of resistance and struggle by millions of women and men; the Mahsa uprising was a decisive battle on this path. The regime, which spent billions on the Guidance Patrol, sent the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) and Basij to the streets, killed hundreds, and arrested and tortured thousands, ultimately could not and failed. This victory must be celebrated and consolidated.

The regime that began with the imposition of the Islamic hijab is now nearing its end with that very hijab. They wanted to build an obedient society with the headscarf, but that same headscarf is now a noose around their own necks. Every unveiled woman in the street is a living testament to the death of Islamic ideology; every schoolgirl with exposed hair is a funeral prayer for Islamic Sharia. This demonstrates the declared truth of Worker-communism that “the future revolution in Iran will also be a women’s revolution.” Today, the same women who were supposed to be obedient are among the standard-bearers of liberation.

However, the victory in the trench of the hijab, although historic and brilliant, is not enough. The Islamic government and its anti-woman apartheid laws are still alive; it still kills, it still executes, and it still holds people’s bread and lives hostage. If this victory does not become a launchpad for the demolition of the system as a whole, reaction will find a way to survive again. Breaking the barrier of the hijab, although important and clear, is only the beginning of the road. Women and youth showed that they can tear down the first wall of reaction, but that wall is only a part of a palace built on exploitation: the palace of Islamic capitalism. The victory in the hijab trench only transforms into a social revolution when it links up with the workers’ battle against poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and inequality. The working class is the force that can stop the economic wheel and bring the regime to its knees. Only under the banner of socialism and a purposeful advance toward the complete overthrow of the Islamic regime can we move from freedom of dress to freedom of life and the liberation of all—from the regime’s defeat in one trench to victory in the entire field. When Saeed Ghasemi said, “We were defeated in the hijab trench,” he perhaps did not know that a bigger defeat is on the way. The day will come when unveiled women and striking workers, hand-in-hand, will defeat this system not in one trench, but in all spheres of politics, economy, and society.

The Worker-communist Party – Hekmatist congratulates all freedom-loving women and men on this victory. This victory must be celebrated, but not as the end, but as the beginning of other decisive battles; the beginning of a new era of struggle for complete liberation, for the overthrow of the Islamic regime, and for the establishment of a socialist republic based on freedom, equality, and welfare for all on the ruins of the Islamic government.

Down with Islamic Republic of Iran!

Freedom, Equality, Workers’ Rule!

Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist

October 7, 2025