{"id":305249,"date":"2023-04-06T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=305249"},"modified":"2023-04-06T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:08:41","slug":"misogyny-ramps-up-in-iran-women-face-intimidation-and-violence-in-wake-of-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/misogyny-ramps-up-in-iran-women-face-intimidation-and-violence-in-wake-of-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Misogyny Ramps up in Iran: Women Face Intimidation and Violence in Wake of Uprising\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the nationwide uprising continues in Iran, its misogynous rulers have intensified their campaign to enforce the mandatory hijab, unleashing a wave of intimidation and violence against women.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 1, the regime\u2019s president, Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, praised the mandatory veiling as a \u201clegal matter.\u201d His Minister of Science, Research, and Technology issued a statement a day after, banning \u201cstudents who do not comply with the\u201d mandatory veiling from having access to \u201ceducational, welfare, etc., services.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the state-run Fars News Agency, on April 1, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei<\/a>, the regime\u2019s Judiciary chief, threatened women and urged the police to deal with this regime-proclaimed \u201ccrime\u201d without \u201cany tolerance.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers are obliged to deal with obvious crimes and any kind of irregularity in public that is against the law and the Sharia. They must refer the cases to competent judicial authorities to handle them. The judicial authorities should also be diligent in taking care of such cases,\u201d he said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, shops and public places are being sealed for accepting \u201cimproperly veiled\u201d women, and a video of a plain cloth agent attacking two young women with yogurt in a shop has gone viral. In the latter case, authorities arrested the two victims, sealed the shop in Mashhad, and state-affiliated media heaped praise on the assailant.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The clerical regime\u2019s ramped-up misogynous actions are a desperate response to Iranian women\u2019s leading role in the nationwide uprising, which has rattled the system\u2019s foundations and laid bare its weakness. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The courage and determination of Iranian women and their leading role in protests spanning across Iran defying four decades of oppression amazed the entire world. Many of the martyrs fallen for freedom in recent demonstrations are young Iranian girls and women.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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