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Iranian MP, Hossein Jalali, member of the Culture Committee of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) that the bank accounts of women who are caught three times without wearing the hijab will be blocked. Quoted by the reformist newspaper "Shargh", Jalali said: "After three warnings the bank account of the person who is caught without the hijab could be blocked". Yesterday, the deputy referred to new provisions to be implemented in the coming weeks regarding the use of the veil in public, which has been mandatory in the Islamic Republic since its foundation in 1979.
“When the riots increase, hooligans and mobs increase, they take to the streets and the cases of women without a veil increase. When all this ends, these behaviors will also end,” Jalali said, referring to the protests that have been going on since mid-September in the country following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish, Mahsa Amini, who died right after her arrest by Iran's notorious morality police for not wearing the veil correctly. Regarding the announcement made last December 3 by the Iranian attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, on the dissolution of the "Gasht-e Ershad", Jalali declared: "There should absolutely be no orientation patrol (name with which in Iran reference to the moral police). For 20 years we didn't have these patrols, but we had moral security police." Jalali elaborated on the proposal to change the approach to push women to wear the veil: "It is possible to warn people without the hijab via text messages (on the phone). After the warning, yes in the control situation, and in the third stage, the unveiled person's bank account can be blocked”.
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which led to the overthrow of the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the new Islamist system wanted by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has continuously monitored compliance with the strict dress code for women and men, with the female headscarf becoming mandatory by law in 1983. However, it was only during the government of the ultra-conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the "Gasht-e Ersad" moral police was officially born with the aim of "disseminating the culture of modesty and the hijab". The units of the notorious moral police they were established by the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution of Iran, now headed by President Ebrahim Raisi. The task of the moral police, also known simply as the "patrol", is to enforce the dress code which requires women to wear long dresses in addition to the veil and prohibits shorts, ripped jeans and other clothes deemed immodest.
Under Iranian law, all women above the age of puberty are required to wear a head covering and loose clothing in public, although the exact age is not clearly defined. In school, girls typically have to wear the hijab from the age of seven, but that doesn't mean they necessarily have to wear it in other public places. There aren't though clear guidelines or details on what types of clothing qualify as inappropriate, leaving much room for interpretation and sparking allegations that enforcers of "morality" arbitrarily detain women as happened with Mahsa Amini.
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