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2022-12-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Protest-hit Iran says reviewing mandatory headscarf law
[Rudaw] Iran
...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...
said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.

Protests have swept Iran since the September 16 death in jug of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the sharia-based law.

Demonstrators have burned their head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans. Since Amini's death, a growing number of women have not been observing hijab, particularly in Tehran's fashionable north.

"Both parliament and the judiciary are working (on the issue)" of whether the law needs any changes, Iran's attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said.

Quoted by the ISNA news agency, he did not specify what could be modified in the law by the two bodies, which are largely in the hands of conservatives.

The review team met on Wednesday with parliament's cultural commission "and will see the results in a week or two", the attorney general said.

President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday said Iran's republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched.

"But there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible," he said in televised comments.

The hijab headscarf became obligatory for all women in Iran in April 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the US-backed monarchy.

It remains a highly sensitive issue in a country where conservatives insist it should be compulsory, while reformists want to leave it up to individual choice.

- HUNDREDS KILLED -
After the hijab law became mandatory, with changing clothing norms it became commonplace to see women in tight jeans and loose, colourful headscarves.

But in July this year Raisi, an ultra-conservative, called for mobilisation of "all state institutions to enforce the headscarf law".

Many women continued to bend the rules, however.

In September, Iran's main reformist party called for the mandatory hijab law to be rescinded.

The Union of Islamic Iran People Party, formed by relatives of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, on Saturday demanded the authorities "prepare the legal elements paving the way for the cancellation of the mandatory hijab law".

The opposition group is also calling for the Islamic republic to "officially announce the end of the activities of the morality police" and "allow peaceful demonstrations", it said in a statement.

Iran accuses its sworn enemy the United States and its allies, including Britannia, Israel, and Kurdish groups based outside the country, of fomenting the street protests which the government calls "riots".

A general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps this week, for the first time, said more than 300 people have bit the dust in the unrest since Amini's death.

Iran's top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, on Saturday said the number of people killed during the protests "exceeds 200".

Cited by state news agency IRNA, it said the figure included security officers, civilians and "separatists" as well as "rioters".

Oslo-based non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights on Tuesday said at least 448 people had been "killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests".

UN rights chief Volker Turk said last week that 14,000 people, including children, had been arrested in the protest crackdown.

The campaign of arrests has snared sportspeople, celebrities and journalists.

Among the latest figures to be arrested was film star Mitra Hajjar, who was detained at her home on Saturday, according to the reformist newspaper Shargh.

The Supreme National Security Council said that in addition to the human toll, the violence had caused damage valued at trillions of rials (millions of dollars).
Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-04 02:43|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top
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#1 Ha! Screw dat! Settle for nothing less than DEATH TO THE AYATOLLAH! Drag 'im out and stomp 'im to ragdoll status.

De-moh-craceee! Parliaments full of no good, cowardly leeches and gravy train riders! Dysfunctional military, dogs for siccing every term on opposition parties. Dismantle own oil and gas industry. No more hamas budget. Living on the dole from IMF. Poverty. Everlasting fuckdom.

Or, make the next Ayatollah a wriggly liberal transvestite in the pay of mossad! That works too.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-04 03:39||   2022-12-04 03:39|| Front Page Top

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-04 11:43||   2022-12-04 11:43|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-04 12:55||   2022-12-04 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Dron, please tell me you're not in charge of India's nuclear arsenal.
Posted by Matt 2022-12-04 13:19||   2022-12-04 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Sadly, no.

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Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-04 13:37||   2022-12-04 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL
Posted by Matt 2022-12-04 13:41||   2022-12-04 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 *Snicker* Dron, tell us how you really feel.
Posted by magpie 2022-12-04 18:35||   2022-12-04 18:35|| Front Page Top

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