President: Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi
Saturday, 3rd December 2022: Iran has at last agreed to review the law, that compels women to wear a hijab. In televised comments, President Ebrahim Raisi said that Iran’s Islamic foundations were strongly entrenched. But he added,” There were “methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible”.
A BRIEF HISTORY: After Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi left Iran on January 15, 1979, the Supreme Military Council handed over power to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on 11th February 1979 and the Islamists seized control of Iran.
In April 1983, the headscarf (called Hijab) became obligatory to wear for all women.
The United Nations said on Nov. 29 that more than 300 people have been killed so far and 14,000 arrested in protests that began after the Sept. 16 death in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. Amini was detained for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women.
Although the protests first focused on Iran’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, they have since transformed into one of the greatest challenges to the ruling clerics since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Ahmed Vahdat has reported in The Telegraph dated 3rd December 2022 that more than 460 persons have been killed by security officers, with 50 children among them. He has also said that anti-regime protests continued all across Iran. (Please see The Telegraph at https://tinyurl.com/33zuhys7 )
He has also reported that the Members of the regime’s cultural mobilisation force and security personnel demolished the home of Davood Rekabi (the brother of the famous rock climber Elnaz Rekabi) in Zanjanrood city in the west of Iran. (It had been reported that Elnaz Rekabi stepped out to compete at a climbing competition in South Korea without a head scarf, in a way supporting the anti-Hijab agitation in Iran.
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