{"id":109735,"date":"2023-04-02T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=109735"},"modified":"2023-04-02T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:52:10","slug":"iran-president-says-hijab-is-law-as-unveiled-women-face-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/04\/02\/iran-president-says-hijab-is-law-as-unveiled-women-face-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran President Says Hijab Is Law as Unveiled Women Face Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yogurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi’ite Muslim city.<\/p>\n

Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules. Security forces violently put down the revolt.<\/p>\n

Judicial authorities in a town near the northeastern city of Mashhad issued arrest warrants for the man seen pouring yogurt over the heads of the two women, a mother and her daughter. They were also the subject of arrest warrants for flouting Iran’s strict female dress rules, state media reported.<\/p>\n

Risking arrest for defying the obligatory dress code, women are widely seen unveiled in malls, restaurants, shops and streets around the country. Videos of unveiled women resisting the morality police have flooded social media.<\/p>\n

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FILE – Iranian women walk in a commercial district without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarves in northern Tehran, Nov. 14, 2022.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In live remarks on state television, Raisi said: “If some people say they don’t believe (in the hijab) \u2026 it’s good to use persuasion. \u2026 But the important point is that there is a legal requirement \u2026 and the hijab is today a legal matter.”<\/p>\n

Authorities said the owner of the dairy shop, who confronted the attacker, had been warned. Reports on social media showed his shop had been shut, although he was quoted by a local news agency as saying he had been allowed to reopen and was to “give explanations” to a court.<\/p>\n

Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei earlier threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported.<\/p>\n

“Unveiling is tantamount to enmity of (our) values,” Ejei was quoted as saying by several news sites.<\/p>\n

Under Iran’s Islamic law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures. Violators have faced public rebuke, fines or arrest.<\/p>\n

Describing the veil as “one of the civilizational foundations of the Iranian nation” and \u201cone of the practical principles of the Islamic Republic,\u201d an Interior Ministry statement on Thursday said there would be no \u201cretreat or tolerance\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n

It urged citizens to confront unveiled women. Such directives have in past decades emboldened hardliners to attack women without impunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yogurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi’ite Muslim city. Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109738,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735\/revisions\/109738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}