The new atrocity of the Iranian regime against women: now women who do not wear the veil will be confined to mental health clinics. An ordinance that particularly focuses on young women and adolescent girls, those who have stood up the most and refused to wear the hijab. Clinics will be monitored by the same authorities who repress these women. This savagery comes two years later the death of Mahsa Amini
Thus, Iranian women who do not wear the veil They can be punished with psychological treatment in clinicsin a new measure by the Iranian government to try to reimpose Islamic clothing that many women have stopped wearing since the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022.
Participation in a rehabilitation clinic for lack of hijab can be imposed as an alternative to fines and upon the court’s decision, Deputy Director of Social Affairs of the Center for Ordaining Good and Forbidding Evil, Mohammad Reza Mirshamsi, reported this Thursday in statements in Didban.
Likewise, he indicated that the judiciary had requested alternatives to punishment which applied to women detained for not wearing the compulsory veil and their organization proposed compulsory attendance at psychological clinics.
They talk about the “damage” caused by not wearing it
“By participating in meetings in these clinics, you realize the damage caused by the removal of the hijab and they will abandon this illegitimate and illegal practice,” added Mirshamsi. The deputy director of social affairs of the Center for the Order of Good and Prohibition of Evil indicated that the measure follows the guidelines set by the president of the country, Masud Pezeshkian, who defended during the electoral campaign that the issue of the veil was educational and not police.
Iranian authorities reported this Wednesday the creation of a clinic in Tehran to support “scientific and psychological path” to women who feel obliged not to wear the Islamic veil, implying that it was a voluntary measure. The announcement of the new clinic came after, earlier this month, a young woman arrested for remaining in her underwear at a university in Tehran, in what was seen as an act of protest after allegedly having a problem with security at the venue because of the veil.
The Iranian government said the young woman was suffering “problems” and he assured that he did not consider the event as a security issue, but rather as a social issue. Many Iranian women have stopped wearing the veil as a sign of civil disobedience. since the death of Amini in September 2022, after being arrested by the morality police for not wearing the Islamic veil, and whose death sparked strong protests.
An attempt to impose the veil with punishments
The Iranian authorities have since tried to reimpose the wearing of the veil with sanctions such as the confiscation of vehicles or the return to the streets of the moral police, who arrest women who are discovered.
Parliament approved a law in 2023 that was ratified in September by the Guardian Council – the body that vetoes legislation – and which must now be signed into law by Iran’s president, reformer Masud Pezeshkian.
The law provides for penalties for women who violate the strict dress code: prison terms of up to five years for repeat offenses, fines of up to $2,000, confiscation of cars and a ban on driving, as well as such as deductions from wages or benefits or travel. to forbid. Despite this, many Iranian women continue not to wear the veil as a sign of defiance. before the Islamic Republic.
