Iran’s police have confirmed that patrols looking for women wearing no headscarf or wearing one improperly are back. In reality, they never really went away. The World’s host Marco Werman talks with Sasha Joelle Achilli, a Frontline producer whose documentary team went inside the uprising against the government that, originally, was symbolized by the headscarf.
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