Cruel mullah regime in Iran is saying, hijab enforcement will never be abolished, insisting that “veils will be back on women’s heads soon”, while acknowledging that a growing number of women are appearing in public without hijab. A lawmaker in December 2022 said that the regime is making some decisions about hijab rules, explaining that the methods for enforcing hijab may change. He added “it is possible that women who do not observe hijab would be informed via SMS, asking them to respect the law. After notifying them, we enter the warning stage… and last, the bank account of the person who unveiled may be blocked”.
It may be mentioned here that the current wave of protests threatening the cruel Islamic Republic started in mid-September 2022 after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was brutally murdered in custody of Iran’s infamous hijab police. These protests continue daily in many locations in the country, but the regime perceives a simple act of civil disobedience as alarmingly damaging to its foundations. In the months that led to the tragic incident of Mahsa Amini murder, Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, who is known as the “butcher of Tehran” had nee intensifying measures over the observance of mandatory hijab in public, which majority of the urban women have been refusing to obey.
However, the measures apparently backfired and led to many campaigns of removing hijab in public in protest to the mandatory Islamic dress code. Moreover, after the death of Mahsa Amini, appearing in public without hijab has become a very popular way of protest, especially in larger cities. Now the cruel Islamic regime seems frustrated over its inability to impose hijab because each of its measures makes people much angrier. But the clerical rulers and their religious followers cannot tolerate the growing phenomenon, while there already is growing sense of fear within the mullahs and their followers about sudden collapse of the regime, as Iranian masses are pressing forward their goal of liberating the country from the evil clutches of Islamists thus establishing democracy in Iran.
Particularly young Iranians have already become desperate in defeating mullahs and freeing the country from decades of nefarious rule. These young Iranians believe, unless the country is liberated from the evil clutches of mullahs, Iran’s future prospects of moving towards socio-economic prosperity would be impossible. It may be mentioned here that, billions of dollars have already been looted from country’s exchequer by the members of mullah regime while they also are involved in dealing in drugs and establishing its absolute monopoly on various economic activities.
According to media reports, following the recent propaganda stunt by the mullah regime claiming its infamous ‘morality police’ was disbanded, critics are full of interpretations of how the regime plans to both enforce the Islamic sharia dress code regulations and at the same time appease protesters. Iranian police declined to confirm Prosecutor General Mohammad-Jafar Montazeri’s December 3, 2022 claim stating that the notorious ‘morality police’ was disbanded.
On January 1, 2023, Fars news agency, affiliated with the hardliners and the IRGC cited an unnamed police source as saying that a new phase of a plan to enforce hijab has started across the country. The news agency also confirmed reports that many people had received warning via SMS (Short Messaging Service) about removing hijab in their cars. On the same day, Ali Khan-Mohammadi, the spokesperson of Iran’s “Headquarters For Enjoining Right And Forbidding Evil”, tasked with promoting the Islamic Republic’s interpretation of Islamic laws, defended the government’s move to shut down and seal businesses that serve women who are not observing the Islamic dress code.
In recent days, a large number of lawmakers and other officials have called for plans to deal with women who unveil. Among these plans for facial identification of those without hijab using CCTV cameras and refusing them social services. In some cities, people without hijab have been prevented from entering some banks and other institutions. In addition, some bank managers have been fired for providing services to women without hijab.
Last week, the Islamic Republic’s prosecutor-general threatened Iranian women again, saying unveiling in public is an act “planned and promoted by enemies”, and described it as a “crime”. Montazeri said one of the “enemies’ plots” in the past few months was breaking the norms and redlines of the Islamic regime. He went on to threaten that people who unveil will be strictly confronted.
