The West paints Iranian women as oppressed by hijab laws while failing to address its own flawed perspectives. It often presents the hijab as the sole symbol of Iranian women's struggle, reducing their calls for autonomy to an "anti-Islam" stance. Yet, in France, Muslim women are banned from wearing hijabs — a stark parallel to the same domineering approach Western media condemns abroad. True solidarity would mean acknowledging the complex socio-political and cultural roots beyond the hijab.