Webdesk: In an effort to stop a growing number of women from breaking the mandatory dress code, Iranian authorities putting up cameras in public places and main streets to catch and punish women who not covered. The police announced this on Saturday.
Police stated that people who break the law will be sent “text messages warning them of the consequences”.
The move meant to “stop resistance against the hijab law”. According to a statement carried by the judiciary’s Mizan news agency and other state media. The statement also said that resistance hurts the spiritual image of the country and spreads fear.
Since a 22-year-old Kurdish woman died in the custody of the morality police last September, more and more Iranian women have taken off their veils. Mahsa Amini was in jail because she accused of breaking the hijab rule. The revolt put down by force by the security forces.
Still, women often seen without their headscarves in malls, restaurants, shops, and streets across the country. Even though doing so get them arrested. Videos of women not wearing veils and fighting back against the morality police are all over social media.
In a statement released on Saturday, the police asked business owners to “carefully inspect for the observance of social norms.”
Revolution
After the 1979 revolution in Iran, the Islamic Sharia law said that women had to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothes to hide their bodies. People who broke the rules, shamed in public, given fines, or been arrested.
In a statement from the Interior Ministry on March 30, the veil called “one of the cultural foundations of the Iranian nation”. It is “one of the practical principles of the Islamic Republic. The statement also said that no going back on the issue.
It told people to talk to uncovered women. In the past few decades, these kinds of orders have given hardliners the courage to attack women. A video that went viral last week showed a man throwing yoghurt at two women who were not wearing clothes in a store.
