In its race to become the most repressive regime since Mao Zedong’s, the State of Iran is now mandating haircut styles for men, and burqas for women. It’s a quest doomed to failure – trying to remake people into the state’s image is bound to have severe reprecussions for the regime over time.

In the end they want all women to look like this, and they want all men to look like that — which makes for boring, homogenous state in which all individuality and creativity is crushed. Dictating dress and appearance is inhuman, and it wars with a primal force that moves the human spirit.

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