Yeah Tehran, Shiraz, and Isfahan at least. Not very practical otherwise as it was a fashion thing. I would imagine as other towns grew it would have spread. Only point being they were not killed for it.
I think you need to do some research on it. Secular modernization was forced on Iranian population by pre-revolution rulers. There's in fact records of police tearing off veils and actually killing protesters of veil ban. I'm not saying the current regime is very democratic either, but facts are facts.
The reason the Iranian theocracy exists is because the US toppled Iran's democratic government and put the Shah in charge. What makes you believe that regime changing the current government will lead to liberal reforms?
Trump is only effective at toppling the governments of democratic societies who foolishly welcome him in. Seemingly inapplicable to Iran, since as you say the current regime won't walk away.
And the hardest part is ensuring the new regime can stay in place. That would suggest boots on the ground for a while ... and a while could be several decades. I think the question is whether it would be worth the cost and effort. We still have 28K troops in Korea. I think Iran would require more troops.
Overgeneralisations like these are just lazy, and most importantly not helpful. There are a lot of predominantly Muslim regions in the world. Reducing all of them to the Iranian regime is like concluding Christian women all wear string Tangas because that’s what you’ve seen on a beach in Brazil.
I know this is just a troll. Nevertheless: Iran was always known to enforce some level of covering a woman’s hair. There are other Islamic countries that do so, some more strictly then it has been the case in Iran. And there are plenty which don‘t, like Egypt, Turkey or Marocco.
In most muslim-majority secular countries it's more up to tradition than religion. You won't find wearing hijab that common in Albania, Kosovo, Indonesia or many of the central asian stans.
In Turkey or Jordan you will often see hijabs, but most women don't wear it.
Hell, most muslim women in western countries do not wear it.
Thus, I don't know what kind of data backs such comments.
Of course many like wearing it. As a muslim female friend of mine says "it's very convenient when you don't have time/energy to do your hair to just wear an hijab". My female, christian, SO liked wearing the hijab too in muslim countries (even in those were it's not common) because she finds them fashionable.
But I don't think women want to have to wear it and given the choice it seems clear most don't.
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