In this paper, I question what Global North scholars recognize as feminist praxis in Iran. Drawing from feminist postcolonial insights, I examine how the concept of ‘freedom’ is articulated and deployed in narratives of anti-compulsory hijab protests in Iran. I posit that women’s rights movements in Iran only become legible (and thereby, visible) to US audiences when they conform to narrow frames of feminist activism and orientalist tropes. I begin this paper by analyzing the relationship between “My Stealthy Freedom” (MSF) and the “Girls of Revolution Street”(GRS) protests to elucidate a politics of recognition that I argue reinforces orientalist representations of women’s rights in Iran. Through its circulation of protest footage to its one million plus followers, MSF increased the visibility of the GRS protests. Yet, through MSF’s selection of which GRS protests to publicize and English-language commentary on why this movement is important, other critical aspects of the GRS protests were rendered invisible. I posit that the strategic framing of women’s rights through campaigns like MSF does more to attract international support than address the multi-faceted nature of gender injustice in Iran and, paradoxically, rests on Iranian women reproducing themselves as the vulnerable ‘unfree’ other.