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"  Photo: Facebook Facebook sucks sometimes. Too many baby pictures and stale viral videos clog my feed, while the occasional message that&amp;#039;s actually important gets lost in the shuffle. But then Facebook lends itself to something like Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women. The new Facebook page was set up last week, The Wall Street Journal reports, to help Iranian women protest the hijab by posting pictures of themselves not wearing it. Gaining more than 150,000 followers in just a week, the page went viral\u2014much like those cat-jumping-into-a-box videos you usually see making the rounds, except it&amp;#039;s actually important. Especially now, at the beginning of the warm weather season in Iran, when, as The Wall Street Journal says, &amp;quot;sandals and capri pants and colorful linen tunics replace drab winter coats and boots,&amp;quot; but &amp;quot;Iran&amp;#039;s morality police raid the streets punishing women for daring to show their painted toes, bare ankles and streaks of highlight. Sometimes the women are fined. Sometimes they are given a verbal notice and often they are detained for several hours.&amp;quot; Yikes. For all those that believe women should have more liberty than that, Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women is giving them a voice and a platform to speak out. Below, scroll through some of the most touching photos and stories, then check out the full protest here.  Photo: Facebook Caption: &amp;quot;Here is Masooleh. We searched and searched till we found a place empty of any observer! It was us...and the sun and the spring breeze! We jumped and pranced till we got tired and then lay down on the grass and slept a few hours without having to worry. If you cannot bear to see these stealthy freedoms we breed for ourselves, then see it and burrrrn. taken by my dear husband&amp;quot;  Photo: Facebook Caption: This is my husband and me and a little stealthy thing we did. It is full of beauty We did this in presence of some officers, who actually had kind hearts and walked past us with a smile. Hopin for the day when others as well will feel responsible for offering peace and security to people rather than chastising them for how they wear&amp;quot;  Photo: Facebook Caption: &amp;quot;Hoping for freedom and release. There&amp;#039;s no pleasure beyond Freedom. I want my hair to be caressed by the kind hands of wind. It might be the smallest kind of freedom one could ever wish for; but I have been robbed of it.&amp;quot;  Photo: Facebook Caption: &amp;quot;letting wind blow through the hair is our girls dream&amp;quot;  Photo: Facebook Caption: &amp;quot;Neither a subversive nor a dangerous person I am! Neither a whore nor necessarily against this system. Can you understand that?!&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;It is not that it happens once every six months or once a year that I feel that I hate this scarf they have forcibly made me wear. I hate it each and every day! Every day as I put it on and get out of the house I hate myself for having it on. I feel bad for my hair, who is thirsty for dancing with the wind in the park and on the street. One of my close friends, who is dear to me as my own brother, always says &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m ashamed of wearing a T-Shirt in front of you girls while you have to stand all those clothes on, in such hot weather.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Related: This Woman Started an Amazing, Viral Protest Against Misogyny and Rape Related: Ukrainian Women Launch Campaign to Withhold Sex from Russians "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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