The United Nations Human Rights Commission revealed on April 25 that Iran’s Islamic cultural police are carrying out a violent crackdown against women and girls under the country’s strict hijab laws. According to the statement issued “Iran: Crackdown on hijab law”, the United Nations Human Rights Commission has received reports of mass arrests and harassment of women and girls between the ages of 15 and 17.
A new agency to enforce hijab laws
Last April 21, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran announced the creation of a new agency to enforce the existing mandatory hijab law, and emphasized that IRGC members are trained to strictly enforce the law in public places.
CCTV cameras across Iran to suppress women
In the past, hundreds of businesses were forcibly shut down by the Ayatollah regime for not enforcing these mandatory hijab laws. Iranian rulers have moved to install CCTV cameras across the country to detect women who do not comply with the hijab law. The announcement of the United Nations Human Rights Commission also indicates that special surveillance cameras will be used to arrest women drivers who do not comply with hijab laws.
After the killing of Mahsa Amini, the repression of Ayatollah is in a new round
This new crackdown comes in the wake of massive protests in September 2022 following the killing of a young woman named Mahsa Amini by the Iranian Moral Police. Back then, Iranian women protested against the religious and patriarchal oppression imposed on them through Sharia law. In schools, universities and offices, young women took to the streets and publicly set fire to hijabs, cutting their hair and publicly challenging the laws of religious fanaticism.
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi’s new laws
Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisia worked to suppress those women’s protests with maximum force and to introduce new laws that are being implemented today. According to the orders of the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, the mechanism that implements the repression is led by the religious extremist President Raisi. Iran’s president and parliament are just puppets of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Ten years in prison if not wearing hijab
A religious fundamentalist law bill called “Supporting the Family by Promoting the Culture of Chastity and Hijab” which determines the clothes, fashion and social existence of Iranian women including hijab is to be passed in the Iranian parliament in near future. According to this new law, women who violate the rules on clothing including hijab will be punished with ten years imprisonment, whipping and fines.
The United Nations Human Rights Organization
Corporal punishment is cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and any detention imposed for the exercise of fundamental freedoms is arbitrary under international law. Therefore, the United Nations Human Rights Commission emphasizes that this bill should be postponed. Its head, Volker Türk, called on the Iranian government to eliminate all forms of gender-based discrimination and violence, including revising and repealing harmful laws, policies and practices in line with international human rights norms and standards.
Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death
But Iran’s murderous Ayatollah regime has no regard for human rights, democracy, freedom of the press, or basic humanity. This was confirmed once again by the death sentence given to popular rapper Toomaj Salehi by the Iranian Isfahan Revolutionary Court. The only crime Tooumaj committed to receive the death penalty was publicly supporting the women’s protests that followed Mahsa Amini’s murder.
Guarantee freedom of speech and expression!
UN human rights chief Volker Türk called on Iranian authorities to overturn Toomaj’s death sentence and release him immediately and unconditionally. He also insists on the release of all persons imprisoned for exercising their freedom of expression including artistic expression.
Mahsa Amini was hit in the head
On September 13, 2022, a twenty-two-year-old girl named Mahsa Amini was arrested by Tehran’s Moral Police for allegedly showing some hair under her headscarf. After being taken to the Moral Police detention center, she was hit on the head and fell down as a result of the attack. After a while, Mahsa lost consciousness and fell into a coma. Three days later, young Mahsa’s life journey ended.
“Woman, Life, Liberty”
Iran’s moral police and rulers used various false pretenses to hide this murder. They pointed out that Mahsa’s death was due to a chronic medical condition but Mahsa’s parents refused to comply for those reasons. Not only them, but the majority of Iranian society rejected the rulers’ usual deceptions. Women took to the streets of Iran under the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom” against coercion and injustice. The murderous Islamic fundamentalist rulers were horrified by the impact of the six-month-long Iranian women’s struggle.
Over 500 people were shot dead
Iranian rulers shot and killed more than 500 peaceful protesters including 60 children. According to Iranian Human Rights Organizations, more than twenty thousand citizens have been arrested and imprisoned for protesting against the Iranian rulers. 110 protesters have been sentenced to death for participating in the people’s struggle through fraudulent trials.
Death penalty by hanging from a crane
Islamic fundamentalist rulers publicly brutally murdered a twenty-three-year-old youth who joined the people’s struggle on December 12, 2022 by hanging him from a construction crane. The young man, Majidreza Rahnavard, was sentenced to death for what was defined as “warring against God”. The youth who was sentenced to death denied the charges filed against him. His lawyers were not given an opportunity to present their case, and Majidreza was sentenced to death after several hours of trial by Iran’s Ayatollah’s “Islamic Revolutionary” court.
Arbitrary killings after unfair trials
The UN Human Rights Commission described the execution as “arbitrary taking of life after unfair trials”. But Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist Ayatollah regime did not stop the brutal, uncivilized execution of its citizens by hanging them from cranes in the city center. Nine Iranians involved in women’s protests have been killed in public in similar manner.
Arrested young women, schoolgirls sexually assaulted
The fundamentalist Ayatollah regime hangs its citizens from cranes and brutally kills them in the city center to intimidate Iranians who come forward for the people’s struggle. Iran’s rulers use a variety of scare tactics to prevent people from mobilizing against the Islamic fundamentalist fascist regime. Iranian security forces carried out a sexual harassment operation targeting young women and schoolgirls who were arrested for participating in demonstrations against Mahsa’s murder. They attacked women’s schools with poison gas.
“Butcher of Tehran”…
These kinds of barbaric acts are not unfamiliar to Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi. Notorious as a religious extremist, he led the “Revolutionary Iranian Court” in the 80’s after the revolution. He arrested and tortured tens of thousands of political opponents and dissenting voices on charges of opposing the revolution and executed thousands more without a fair trial. He was known as “Butcher of Tehran”. He held the positions of Attorney General, Deputy Chief Justice and Chief Justice of Iran and became President in 2021. It is known that Raisi, who is considered to be a close political friend of current spiritual and supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini, became the president through a rigging the election led by Khomeini. He contested the presidential election in 2017 and suffered a humiliating defeat.
On the verge of becoming Iran’s “Supreme Leader”.
President Ebrahim Raisi was in the forefront as the religious extremist who was to take the position of the eighty-five-year-old Ayatollah Khomeini, who is currently in sick condition who is the “Supreme Leader” of Iran. Ebrahim Raisi, who was continuously named as a criminal against humanity by the world’s human rights organizations and UN special rapporteurs, met all the qualifications to become the “Supreme Leader” of Iran. But the law of nature stood against him. Due to his sudden death, Vice President Mohammad Mokbar has become the acting president of Iran and an election must be held to choose a new president within fifty days. However the President of Iran is chosen by the “Supreme Leader”. Since the president is his puppet, Iran’s future will not change in any way. Ayatollah Khomeini has already said this to the Iranian people.
Law of nature
Any powerful, dictator in the world is ultimately subject to the law of nature. Examples of this are how Adolf Hitler and Mussolini died. The “butcher of Tehran” who had bequeathed death and tortured to tens of thousands finally met the ‘helicopter god’. Except for the supporters of the Ayatollah regime, the whole of Iran can be seen on social media blessing the law of nature. All we can say is that the fate of every dictator who oppresses his citizens is no different from that of Ibrahim Raisi.
Azgar Nuhman – Freelance journalist and Sufi author
