The Iranian story is that she suffered a breakdown from stress and anxiety. The immediate western story was that she was doing this as protest after the police took her hijab or told her to put one on, they don't seem to know either.

Spivak talks about this in Can the Subaltern Speak. She can conform to islamist misogyny or 'liberate' through western sexualisation. But she can never express herself outside of these opresssive paradigms.