The Iranian mullah’s regime’s stance shows no moderation towards women

The Iranian mullah’s regime is renewing their stance on “mal-veiling” and the punishment of women who are considered guilty of it. The renewal of the plan involved the deployment of 7000 members of the Basij, the “morality police”, sent undercover to find said instances of “mal-veiling” and other “violations”. The plan was put in place by mullah Ahmed Khatami, the regime’s interim Friday prayers leader in Tehran, claiming the plan is “stressed as legal.”

Farideh Karimi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has stated that “suppression of women is further institutionalised each passing day”, and says the regime is “cracking down on women.”

As the President of the Iranian regime, Hassan Rouhani has the power to stop those new measures, but, Karimi says, “he is in practice endorsing them.”

The mullah regime has been known to discriminate against women, going in the opposite direction of the rest of the United Nations who is leaning further towards parity every year. Elaheh Arj, vice chair of the Women’s Committee of the NCRI spoke to the IBTimes, saying that “64 women have been executed alongside 2,300 men during Rouhani’s tenure”.

On Wednesday 27^th of April, the regime flogged a woman in public in the city of Golpayegan for an alleged affair with another man. She is currently serving a 15 year prison sentence, for an alleged role in the murder of her husband, an accusation that was carried out without due process.

The recent Iranian election, which was supposedly won by a moderate candidate, is seeing no slowing down of their radical punishment methods, showing that no moderate action has been implemented at all.

Farideh Karimi has urged women’s rights activists and organisations to “stand up and speak out against the mullah’s misogynist policies.”