18:00, 25 October 2026

Iran is ready to accept female students from Azerbaijan who disagree with the restrictions on wearing hijabs.

Azerbaijani female students facing restrictions on wearing hijabs can continue their studies in Iran, said the vice president of the Islamic Republic, urging university leadership to take steps that would allow these girls to continue their education.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in Azerbaijan, despite protests from believers, restrictions continue on the admission of schoolgirls and teachers in hijabs. After mass detentions of participants in protests in the village of Nardaran, parents are afraid to publicly oppose the ban, and some prefer to keep their daughters at home.

Since October 12, school leaders in Azerbaijan have not allowed teachers and schoolgirls who refused to remove their hijabs to attend classes. Around several schools in Baku, students and teachers held lessons in the street in protest. On October 13, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the detention of 37 protest participants, while activists counted more than 200 detained. Protests against the exclusion of children and female teachers from classes have become a continuation of a long-standing dispute over religious clothing in schools, according to a report by "Caucasian Knot" "Protests over school dress code in Azerbaijan".

The first vice president of Iran, Mohammad Reza Aref, urged Azerbaijani girls and women facing restrictions on wearing hijabs in their country to continue their studies in Iran, writes the Mehr agency, citing the politician's post on social media X.

Aref thanked the Ministry of Science for the statement about the readiness of Iranian universities to accept Azerbaijani girls wearing hijabs. He also urged other representatives of the education sector and university leadership to take steps that would allow these female students to continue their education.

Earlier, the student organization "Basij" at Tehran University expressed protest against these restrictions by displaying a poster at the building of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, according to the publication.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/427785