The Justice of Tehran province today warned that the authorities will not tolerate what they classify as “naude” of women who do not comply with Islamic clothing standards by failing to wear the veil on the streets of the Iranian capital.
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13/10/2026
by
Lusa
“ Nthey will ignore inappropriate conduct, libertinage, or attempts to normalize certain behaviors and eliminate their socially reprehensible character,” said the president of the judiciary in Tehran province, Naser Atabati, according to the news agency Mizan.
Atabati made these statements at a meeting on compliance with the rules of the Islamic veil (‘hijab’), with the participation of Tehran’s prosecutor, Ali Salehi, the capital police commander, General Abbas Ali Mohamadian, and authorities of other bodies.
The responsible indicated that, in some public spaces, the situation “went beyond removing the veil” and there were “nudity scenes”. He therefore called for legal provisions to be used to act against these conducts, which he considered “to clearly demonstrate the intervention of the enemy in cultural matters”, in an apparent reference to the United States.
“ The judiciary, together with security forces and other bodies, has a legal obligation to act against any behavior aimed at promoting nudity, liberating and normalizing inappropriate relations in society,” Atabati said.
The warnings arise after the head of the Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, last week ordered the State Attorney’s Office to combat “firmly” the “social anomalies”, referring to women who do not wear a veil or do not cover the body.
The order arose in the face of the growing number of women who go out to the streets of large cities, such as Tehran, without covering their hair — including the wearing of short-sleeved shirts or straps — within the framework of the civil disobedience movement that arose after Mahsa Amini's death in 2022.
The death of the 22-year-old Kurd provoked protests of a strong feminist nature under the motto “Woman, Life, Freedom”, which were harshly repressed by the authorities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of detainees, according to human rights organizations.
With the increase in the number of women challenging the obligation of the Islamic veil, the Government announced at the end of 2024 that it was not applying the laws that punished the lack of the veil. Since then, there has been a growing freedom in women's clothing, something that, until recently, was a non-negotiable symbol of the Islamic Republic founded by ‘ayatolah’ Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979.