{"id":117088,"date":"2024-03-13T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=117088"},"modified":"2024-03-13T06:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:58:02","slug":"iran-arrests-four-over-video-of-womans-argument-with-cleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2024\/03\/13\/iran-arrests-four-over-video-of-womans-argument-with-cleric\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Arrests Four Over Video of Woman&#8217;s Argument With Cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117090 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Iranian-women-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Iranian-women-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Iranian-women-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Iranian-women-1-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Iranian-women-1-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Iranian-women-1-48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Iranian-women-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 <\/span>Iran has arrested four people on suspicion of giving a foreign-based broadcaster video of an argument between a Shiite cleric and a woman not wearing the mandatory headscarf, Iranian media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Closed-circuit television footage of the row in Iran&#8217;s Shiite clerical center of Qom has gone viral on social media and has also been aired by the London-based news channel Iran International, regarded as an &#8220;enemy media&#8221; outlet by the Tehran authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the woman confronts the cleric for allegedly taking photographs of her waiting with her child in a Qom clinic without the headscarf that has been obligatory for women in public since the years after the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy prosecutor of Qom, Ruhollah Moslemhkani, said four of the &#8220;main publishers and senders&#8221; of the video to the &#8220;enemy [Iran] International network&#8221; had been arrested, the Fars news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is clear to us, and we are sure of, is a design and planning had been made to create division and sedition in the society,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>There has been renewed controversy over the mandatory dress code since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 after she was arrested for an alleged breach.<\/p>\n<p>Her death sparked nationwide protests that the authorities blamed on incitement by Western governments and foreign-based Farsi-language media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 Iran has arrested four people on suspicion of giving a foreign-based broadcaster video of an argument between a Shiite cleric and a woman not wearing the mandatory headscarf, Iranian media reported Tuesday. 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