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Head of Iran’s sports federation resigns after outcry over women running unveiled
2023-05-08
[IsraelTimes] State news agency says Hashem Siami quit ’due to the controversies that arose’ after photographs circulated of women competing without a hijab at event in Shiraz.

The head of Iran’s athletics federation resigned Sunday over a sporting event featuring women without the mandatory headscarf, state media reported, as the Islamic Theocratic Republic toughens enforcement of hijab rules.

"Hashem Siami resigned from his post due to the controversies that arose from the endurance [running] race organized in Shiraz" in Iran’s south, official news agency IRNA said.

According to images from Friday’s competition published by Iranian media, some women were running without headscarves, made compulsory shortly after the Islamic revolution of 1979.

Local organizers of the public event have also been summoned to provide "explanations," the provincial prosecutor said Sunday in a statement.

Siami told IRNA he was not involved in organizing the competition, and the unveiled athletes were not part of the national federation.

A new police program came into force last month aimed at stricter enforcement of hijab-wearing in public.

The number of women in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
defying the dress code has increased since a wave of protests after the September 16 death in jug of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, 22, for allegedly breaching it.

Authorities in Tehran last week launched proceedings against at least four actors who had appeared in public without headscarfs, local media said.

More than 150 commercial establishments nationwide were closed after employees had allegedly violated the dress code, authorities said in mid-April.

Police in Shiraz arrested in June girls who removed their veils at a skateboarding event, as well as the organizers.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  With the new fad of warm up dancing at the starting blocks, a view requirement might add a little of mystery to that custom.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-05-08 12:27  

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