Anyone who has taken a plane to either Saudi Arabia or Iran will tell you this head/face covering is a crock , the plane on departure from Europe will be full of some best looking women in the world , beautiful bodies in close fitting clothes and long shoulder length hair , 1/2 an hour before landing the parade to the toilets begins ...in goes a good looking woman/girl and out comes this black garbed bag, so in no way is this covering up a religious thing , the 'black bags' just conforming to local Saudi traditions .
This covering up the hair by Iranian women is a new thing , previously it was banned in the 30s by the late Shah's father (around the same time Attaturk banned the viel/headscarf in Turkey) it was only after the Iman Khomeni returned that the head covering came back , the logic being that some Iranian Scientist/Mullah had made the startling discovery that womens hair emits invisible rays which turn men into sex crazed beasts and therefore should be covered as a way of protecting the men from being bewitched ......
