Iranian men are wearing hijabs in protest of laws which require women to cover their heads in public in the Middle Eastern country.
In Iran, wearing a hijab is strictly enforced, and women who do not comply can be punished with fines or imprisonment, the .
In the past week Iranian men have started taking photos of themselves wearing hijabs to protest the law and have been posting the photos on social media with the hashtag #MenInHijab.
In some of the photos, the men appear next to their wife or a female relative who has her hair uncovered, in a reversal of the status quo.
"I hate when they used morality police in order to force my wife to wear compulsory hijab," wrote one man.
"There are a lot of men in Iran who have respect for women's freedom of choice, so those conservatives who called men pimp just because they are not happy with our wives' 'bad hijab' are not representative of Iranian men at all."
The images are being collected on the Facebook page , which is run by Iranian activist and journalist Masih Alinejad, who is now based in New York.
Her #MenInHijab campaign has so far received 30 images from Iranian men keen to highlight gender inequality in Iran's dress code, while many more have been posted in private social media accounts.
"For years, since childhood and adolescence until the mature women, we've been forced to wear this scarf compulsory and for years we have to go through this violation of our dignity," Alinejad said.
"We are not against the hijab but we want ... to be able to choose to wear the hijab or not.
"Here is our campaign called #MenInHijab to challenge the compulsory hijab for many women."
The My Stealthy Freedom page has more than 1 million followers, and has previously highlighted a trend among Iranian women to in order to escape the notice of the morality police.
A man who posed in a white headscarf alongside some women wearing hijabs wrote that "in Iran if you want to judge a woman, then you had better try the compulsory hijab first".
"Forcing women to wear hijab is an insult to men as well, especially given that women are free to wear what they want to wear in many other countries," he said.
Another man said he posted his hijab photo to Instagram because "I sincerely want my wife to be able to live in an Iran where she is the one who can determine what she can wear".
A man who took a photo of himself in his mother's hijab, said he always felt ashamed for his mother and sisters for having to dress that way, particularly in the heat of summer.
"I sometimes put her clothes on and remember those hot summer days when she would go out shopping and when she returned, due to the heat, she didn't even have the energy to speak," he wrote.
"It's very tough to go out in such clothing in the hot weather of Ahvaz, it's indescribable."
