Iranian regime on the defensive in attempt to impose hejab

Shahrzad News - The struggle to force Iranian women to adopt hejab has become a serious problem for the regime. All attempts to tackle the issue have been unsuccessful. Years of crackdowns, penalties and harassment have failed to create an acceptable hejab-wearing stereotype.

Shahrzad News :Iran’s Ministry of the Interior has said that it will back student unions that support attempts to impose the government’s hejab policy on university campuses. The head of the Office for the Promotion of Hejab, a ministry department, called on students to use social networks to advocate the use of the compulsory Islamic cover.

The struggle to force Iranian women to adopt hejab has become a serious problem for the regime. All attempts to tackle the issue have been unsuccessful. Years of crackdowns, penalties and harassment have failed to create an acceptable hejab-wearing stereotype. In spite of massive budgets allocated to train militias and religious police to intimidate and threaten women, their resistance has not been broken, and the regime has been forced to resort to defensive tactics.

While some Friday prayer imams have declared war on bad-hejabi women and even issued fatwas (religious edicts) against them, the public have virtually ignored them.

In recent weeks more cases of violence against such women have been reported.