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A supporter of Iranian religious hardliners raises up a poster reading in Persian ” Please keep your Islamic dress code to be recognised as a real Muslim woman” as she takes part in a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayer in Tehran on May 16, 2014 demanding that the government fully enforce obligatory rules that women be veiled in public. Thousands of Iranian women have recently come together in the online campaign, posting pictures of themselves flouting the Islamic dress code required of all women in public in the Islamic republic. The head-dress, which is obligatory in Iran, requires women to cover their hair and much of their body in loose clothing. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE