Iran’s hijab policy will not change after Mahsa Amini’s death, despite widespread demonstrations.
To rein in the growing number of women who defy the country’s stringent dress code, Iranian authorities are installing surveillance cameras in public areas to identify and punish women who don’t cover their hair.
Those perceived to be violating Iran’s hijab regulations will receive “warning text messages regarding the repercussions,” according to Iranian police.
According to a police statement broadcast by the judiciary’s Mizan news agency and other official media, the action aims to “prevent resistance against the hijab law.”
It further stated that such resistance tarnishes Iran’s spiritual reputation and promotes insecurity.
After the morality police killed a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in September, more Iranian women have taken off their veils.
Mahsa Amini was detained on suspicion of violating the hijab rule.
Her death has prompted massive nationwide protests, to which the security forces have violently responded.
In a statement released last month, the Interior Ministry characterized the veil as “one of the civilizational foundations of the Iranian nation” and “one of the practical principles of the Islamic Republic” and stated that there would be no backtracking on the issue.
After the 1979 revolution, Iran’s Islamic Sharia law mandated that women cover their tresses and wear loose, long clothing to conceal their figures. Infringers were subject to public censure, penalties, or arrest.
A man in Iran flung yoghurt over two women who entered a store without head coverings.
CCTV footage of the “yogurt attack” in Shandiz, northeast Iran, went popular on social media.
