Will the mullahs’ regime bow to the people and amend compulsory Hijab laws in Iran?
What is happening in Iran and will the Iranian government finally respond to women’s demands?.. Months of protests have been ongoing following the death of Iranian girl Mahsa Amini, who died of police brutality for violating Iran’s dress and hijab rules. Her death is a major source of anger for the Iranian people, who are demanding the downfall of a discredited regime.
Violence and stress are not effective
Iran’s leading religious authority, known for his conservative stances, Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Naser Makarem Shirazi, does not consider “violence and pressure to be effective in the headscarf issue”. He expressed his rejection of the use of force to force women to wear the veil when he was received in the Shiite holy city of Qom in the center of the country by the Minister of Culture Mohammad Mehdi Esmaeili, who said: “The President and the ministers must know that they are in a difficult situation, it is true that the enemy is moving strongly, but we are not in a dilemma”. At the same time, the Iranian Minister of Tourism came out calling for more social freedom, especially for women in Iran. The Minister of Tourism said: “I advise the man who is acting harshly” towards a woman who does not wear the veil, “I advise the man to turn a blind eye if he is looking at her.” He added: “Unfortunately, the horizon the horizon is no longer available, but we can no longer understand and improve people’s social life,” Ali Jannati, a former Guidance Minister and son of hardline Guardian Council Chairman Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, criticized the Iranian regime for its handling of forced hijab, saying: “The Iranian parliament has passed a law to deal with the hijab, and over the past three decades they have wasted thousands of hours on how to deal with the phenomenon of hijab.”
Pending Solutions
Sumaya Asala, an Iran researcher, says: For several weeks now, with the outbreak of Iranian protests, there has been movement by the mullahs’ regime, through statements by senior officials who have not succeeded in resolving the issues, but have rather intensified the protests. Their statements revolve around the Iranian regime’s quest to consider the implementation mechanism of the constitution pertaining to the veil (headscarf) affairs, the moral police, and the terms to which the Iranian people are opposed. This is no longer enough, as Iranians aspire to put into effect international human rights laws in society.
Asala said that the Iranian regime tried to absorb public anger, but the accumulation of anger inside the hearts of Iranians ignited things, especially that the Iranian regime only hinted from afar at its “intentions to reform, without speaking about the unjust legal provisions for the people, which were the cause of the intolerable security restrictions”.
