Qum

And in the religious city of Qum, they reprimanded the manager of a bank for catering to clients without hijabs.

His words brought to mind a meeting I had in the holy Iranian city of Qum in 2009.

Elsewhere, protesters clashed with the authorities in Qum, south of Tehran, and fled bullets fired by security forces in the southeastern city of Kerman, according to videos posted on social media.

That led to young women showing more hair, even in devoutly conservative cities such as Qum.

Iran already headed in that direction years ago, when it built a small plant deep inside a mountain near the city of Qum.