the authorities in iran are vowing to enforce the wearing of a headscarf by women more rigorously, despite months of protests. a growing number of women have been seen unveiled in public, and hardline politicians are giving judges ultimatums to punish those who ignore the rules. earlier i spoke to bbc s parham ghobadi and asked what prompted this latest move. in big cities like in tehran and in other major cities, they just walk around on the streets without headscarf and without her and without hijab, it s not only headscarf, it s also a kind of trench coat that for four decades, iranian women had to wear in order to walk on the streets. so now we see, especially younger women, walking on the streets without any sort of hijab and iranian politicians and it has frustrated iranian hardliners. and so iranian regime is in a really difficult position because they have this tiny margin of supporters that are hard liners, and these are the people who are willing to pick up arms and
that strong early april sunshine, plenty of sunshine across the board as you can see fresh south easterly breezes. cooler along not seacoast, but up to about 13, maybe 1a degrees further west. a temporary blip around the middle part of the week, the area of high pressure retreats for a while, allows weather fronts to move into northern and western areas to bring more cloud a better rain, but then it looks like high pressure builds back in. there is that blip showing up clearly here on our icons across northern and western areas, but then in the run up to easter looks promising in terms of sunshine.