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kashf-e Hijab and Soraya Tarzi Story.

On 8 January 1936, Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran issued a decree known as Kashf-e hijab (also Romanized as “Kashf-e hijāb”) banning all Islamic veils (including headscarf and chador), an edict that was swiftly and forcefully implemented.

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Reza Shah’s death.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was born in the village of Alasht in Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, in 1878, to Major Abbas-Ali Khan and Noush-Afarin.

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