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NCRI – Women\u2019s immodest attire is causing rivers in Iran to dry up, according to a senior cleric of the Iranian regime who urged the regime\u2019s fundamentalist storm-troopers on Friday to crack down on women for \u201cimproper veiling.\u201d<\/p>\n
While referring to the issue of \u2018improper veiling\u2019, mullah Seyyed Youssef Tabatabi-nejad, the regime\u2019s Friday prayers\u2019 leader in Isfahan, in his sermon this week said: \u201cMy office has received photos of women next to the dry Zayandeh-rud River pictured as if they are in Europe. It is these sorts of acts that cause the river to dry up even further.\u201d<\/p>\n
His remarks were carried by the state-run ISNA news agency on Friday.<\/p>\n
He also criticized online social networks which \u201cencourage improper veiling\u201d among women.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell the Communications Ministry to clamp down on the instigators of the networks encouraging immodesty. If you don\u2019t do so, then you will have failed to carry out your duty. The Communications Ministry can discover and suffocate these individuals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Tabatabi-nejad, who is also the representative of the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Isfahan, claimed that the regime had not been forceful enough in its implementation of its \u2018cultural revolution.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past few years we weren\u2019t even able to gender segregate the universities. What kind of a cultural revolution is this in which no major actions have been undertaken?\u201d<\/p>\n
Tabatabi-nejad urged the regime\u2019s supporters to assist the so-called morality force hounding the streets to ensure that women are \u2018properly veiled.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we see a sin it\u2019s useless that we only bicker about it. The police force can use the [paramilitary] Hezbollahi forces in carrying out their operations to root out vice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tabatabi-nejad sits as a member of the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body of 88 senior mullahs who are tasked with appointing the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader.<\/p>\n