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On 4 February 2019 in Washington, D.C., Masih Alinejad, founder of My Stealthy Freedom and advocate against compulsory hijab in Iran, meets then-US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo under President Donald Trump’s administration, a key architect of the “maximum pressure” sanctions policy on Iran. The encounter came to be seen as emblematic of the uneasy entanglement between women’s struggles in Iran and the geopolitics of sanctions and foreign intervention. Image source: Wikimedia Commons.