According to Islamic regulations in Iran, women are obliged to wear a long jacket and a headscarf to cover body contours and hair. In the big cities, however, many women no longer adhere to these strict clothing regulations in protest. Now the Mullahs want to force their rules with the help of video surveillance.
According to the media reports, the duty of the country is controlled by video surveillance in the capital Tehran and other metropolises of the country. Women who showed themselves in public without the headscarf prescribed in Iran, according to the newspaper “Etemad”, received warnings via SMS. Such a surveillance has so far been limited to road traffic.
The government of moderate conservative president Massud Peseschkian had given the prospect of a more moderately use of social reality after his took office in the summer of 2024, but without the obligation to convey. A controversial reform of criminal law is currently on ice.
The government does not want to have sent a warning
District spokeswoman Fateheh Mohajerani confirmed the process on Tuesday, but referred to the “bitter experiences of the past” – a possible allusion to the violent approach to the protests almost three years ago. Vice -President Sahra Behrus Asar promised to pursue the case. “We strive to clarify where these SMS come from, for what purpose they are sent and on what legal basis this is done,” she said. It was said from informed circles in Tehran that it was not a coordinated measure by the police or moral guards
The demonstrations then caused the death of the young Iranian Kurdin Jina Mahsa Amini. In the autumn of 2022 it was arrested by the moral police for alleged violations of the Islamic clothing regulations and died a little later in their detention. Since then, the moral police have appeared considerably more reserved – also because it encounters more and more resistance. Instead, the security authorities now increasingly rely on legal measures, for example by determining vehicles in the case of repeated violations of the headscarf obligation.
Source: Krone
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