Regime in Iran banns film festival over poster of an actress without hijab

As further suppression Iranian women continued, Regime in Iran have banned a film festival that put out a publicity poster featuring an actress who was not wearing a hijab headscarf, state media reported The ban comes after the Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA) released a poster for its upcoming Short Film Festival featuring Iranian actress. Susan Taslimi in the 1982 film "The Death of Yazdguerd".

"The culture minister has personally issued an order to ban the 13th edition of the ISFA Film Festival, after using a photo of a woman without a hijab on its poster in violation of the law," state news agency IRNA reported late Saturday.

The festival had been scheduled to be held in September