Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The man designated by Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Minister of Justice vowed on Saturday that improperly-veiled women will be treated as if they had no Islamic veil at all.
Jamal Karimi-Rad told the local press, Being improperly veiled
and not wearing a veil are no different. When it is clear from the appearance of a woman that she has violated the law, then the crime is obvious and law enforcement agents can take legal measures against her. Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The man designated by Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Minister of Justice vowed on Saturday that improperly-veiled women will be treated as if they had no Islamic veil at all.
Jamal Karimi-Rad told the local press, Being improperly veiled and not wearing a veil are no different. When it is clear from the appearance of a woman that she has violated the law, then the crime is obvious and law enforcement agents can take legal measures against her.
Crimes such as mal-veiling or other prohibited acts, which happen before the eyes of a law enforcement agent, are evident crimes and must be dealt with in accordance with the law, Karimi-Rad said.
Karimi-Rad also made it clear that members of the para-military Bassij and the notorious Ansar-e Hizbollah, government-organised gangs of hooligans, are regarded as law enforcement agents in clergy-ruled Iran.
Women have been facing a harsher crackdown since the June elections that led to Ahmadinejads presidency.
In July, Iran deployed squads of women-only vice police to clamp down on un-Islamic dress. The semi-official Jomhouri Islami recently reported that women have been arrested in Iran for disrespecting Islamic virtues and for having repulsive and immoral attire.
With the arrival of a top commander of Irans Revolutionary Guards as the countrys new police chief, a new summer-long crackdown on social vice in Tehran was launched targeting young women.
State-run news agencies reported that mal-veiled or unveiled individuals inside and outside of cars would be the target of arrests by Irans State Security Forces, the paramilitary police force. The police would also embark on a systematic clampdown on shops and public places where public chastity and Islamic values are ignored.
