Iranian police are sending out thousands of warnings about headscarf violations

Iran’s police have already issued thousands of warnings as part of the video surveillance of the headscarf requirement. In West Azerbaijan province, more than 2,000 text messages were sent to women suspected of violating dress codes on the road.

This is reported by the newspaper ‘Etemad’ on Thursday. In addition, the authorities ordered the closure of 80 shops in which the headscarf rules had been violated.

For several days now, the Iranian police have been using video recordings to monitor the headscarf requirement, especially in road traffic. However, much more extensive monitoring is planned. For months now, the infamous vice squad, which used patrols to enforce headscarves, has almost completely disappeared from the streets. Many women in the metropolises of Iran no longer wear headscarves.

More than six months after the start of the latest wave of protests in Iran, the country’s political and spiritual leaders remain under immense pressure. The uprisings in the fall plunged the Islamic Republic into one of its worst crises in decades. The reason was the death of the Iranian Kurd Jina Mahsa Amini in mid-September. She died in police custody after being arrested for violating the Islamic dress code. (oee/sda/dpa)