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Increased suppression under the pretext of “mal-veiling”

NCRI – The misogynist leaders of the mullahs are trying to suppress the volatile state of the society under the pretext of “mal-veiling.”
A member of the Cultural Committee in the regime’s Majlis (parliament), Seyyed Jalal Yahyazadeh, said, “Last year, in a proposal to the Chief of State Security Forces (SSF) to establish an information database which would register the repeated offenders of the [Islamic] code of dress, a repeated offender’s name would be registered several times in that database if she insists on the offence…If this cultural cure is not effective then a physical approach by the SSF would be necessary…Therefore, until such a time that mal-veiling is dealt with in the governmental institutions, its implementation in the society at large would not be feasible,” the state-run news agency ILNA reported on April 13. Another member of the Majlis, Fatemeh Alia, in reaction to “mal-veiling” plan said, “It is a good approach, but it has to be maintained continuously, because seasonal and one time [plan] is not effective,” the state-run news agency ISNA reported on April 13.

The extremist weekly “Lasarat al-Hossein” belonging to Ansar Hezbollah (a semi militia organization controlled by the regime’s leaders) wrote in its latest report, “SSF in Tehran should deal with this issue [mal-veiling] more swiftly. Now we have to sit down and watch how it turns out. The social corruption and non-Islamic outfits worn by women have grown dramatically in the society. But the reaction by the [officials] has not been visible.”

The desperate regime which is unable to suppress the women and youths’ uprisings has adopted such measures as combating “mal-veiling” in the society.   

Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 14, 2007