The interior ministry described the veil as “one of the civilisational foundations of the Iranian nation” and “one of the practical principles of the Islamic Republic.” If they can’t subjugate women, they have lost a primary raison d’etre.
“Women not wearing hijab to be banned from Tehran metro – reports,” by Patrick Wintour, Guardian, April 10, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Hijab enforcement groups are to be set up on the Tehran metro and women not wearing the hijab will be refused entry, in effect banning some women from work, Iranian state TV has reported.
The move appears to be part of a pattern of government efforts to force Iranian public bodies to take greater responsibility for enforcing the hijab. Many Iranian women, especially in urban centres, have refused to comply with the hijab rules, in a sign that the “women, life, freedom” protests that began in September continue in a more individualised form.
The latest threatened clampdown comes as girls in secondary schools in Tehran, Karaj and other cities continue to report poison attacks. At least nine schools were reported to have been attacked on Sunday. According to the Iranian MP Mohammad Hassan Asefari, a government fact-finding committee said the security agencies had been unable to identify the perpetrators, while the ministry of health had yet to determine the nature of the poison being used.
The contrast between the urgency of the efforts to enforce the hijab and the inability of investigators to use CCTV to identify those behind the poison attacks has infuriated opponents of the government.
The Tehran Metro Company had already announced that “in line with the demands of the noble people of Iran on the issue of hijab”, it was launching a verbal reminder project in Tehran and suburban metro stations. But the latest pictures on Iran state TV show metro staff barring women trying to pass through the ticket barrier without a hijab.
Masoud Darshti, the chief executive of Tehran and Suburbs Metro Operation Company, had announced the establishment of a chastity and hijab headquarters to issue reminders. He said his staff would be required to implement any police order but added that he had not yet personally received the instruction formally.
Different rules have been deployed in different stations and cities, with instances shown on social media of unveiled women already being barred in cities such as Isfahan.
The government said on Saturday that it planned to install cameras in streets and use existing traffic camera CCTV to detect women not complying with the dress code, and that fines would be imposed….
An interior ministry statement on 30 March said there would be no retreat on the issue, describing the veil as “one of the civilisational foundations of the Iranian nation” and “one of the practical principles of the Islamic Republic”.
Mark Spahn says
“The latest threatened clampdown comes as girls in secondary schools in Tehran, Karaj and other cities continue to report poison attacks. At least nine schools were reported to have been attacked on Sunday. According to the Iranian MP Mohammad Hassan Asefari, a government fact-finding committee said the security agencies had been unable to identify the perpetrators, while the ministry of health had yet to determine the nature of the poison being used.”
This is odd. Are these poison attacks against schoolgirls, or schools? How are these poison attacks carried out? Why are they even called “poison” attacks if no-one can identify a poison?
gravenimage says
Mark, there have been numerous cases in Iran of the entire girls schools being attacked, and all of the students and staff falling ill:
“Mass Poisoning of Schoolgirls in Iran”
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2023/mar/08/mass-poisoning-schoolgirls-iran#:~:text=Between%20November%202022%20and%20March,rights%20groups%20and%20government%20officials.
There is *no* reason to suppose that this is not happening. And Iranian authorities have been dismissive or have not followed up on these cases. Given how Iran treats its women and girls, this should not surprise.
Westman says
Typical dictator logic. Murdering and raping women who want rights is ineffective so make them walk. Then, when they are late making meals, the husbands can beat them?
One could expect these deficient ideas from power-mad brains will ultimately end the Iranian Regime. May the unholy Regime receive everything it richly deserves.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran: Women not wearing hijab to be banned from Tehran metro
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Who can be surprised? Iran has actually done much worse.
FYI says
Yes indeed allah does insist muslim women should ‘lower their gaze’ koran 24:31 and wear their hijab but the actual BIBLICAL GOD doesn’t….{you can check it if you a muslim koran 10:94 allah permits you but 1] it is hard to find a Bible in an islamic country isn’t it?{WHY?} and 2}islamic holy men don’t want you muslims to figure it out{That’s WHY}
mean allah,mean.
“But on a woman long hair is a THING OF BEAUTY.Her long hair has been given her..i.e [by the Actual God} to serve as a covering”
I Corinthians 11 v 13
The REALGOD has given women hair:they don’t need any covering.
It’s a THING OF BEAUTY you see.But not allah.allah is so mean.
{St Paul doesn’t like long hair on men{v 14 ‘why nature itself teaches that long hair on a man is a disgrace..spot the Roman! but on a woman it is a THING OF BEAUTY}
allah is so mean:but then he is the one referred in 2 Corinthians 4 v 4 isn’t he?:THAT is allah- that is the god that enslaves the Iranians with his ‘holy men’.
BTW in the same chapter there is the astonishing revelation that body parts can speak..Who knew?
“..On that day their HANDS AND FEET will testify against them to what they used to”{Surah 24 v24} when ..they stand before the FOOT OF ALLAH{koran 68:42}of the TWO RIGHT HANDS koran 49:1