A Cleric Warned About His Poor Hijab! In Pictures: As Iranian Currency Plunges, Police Cracks Down on Hookah Salons and Women's Hijab
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Pressured by renewed sanctions imposed by Donald Trump, coronavirus pandemic impacts and record low oil prices, Iran's economy is in crisis, leading to a historic devaluation of Iran's currency. But Iranian authorities are focusing on cracking down on poorly veiled women for defying strict Hijab Rules inside their private cars and on young people socializing in underground hookah salons.
According to Iranian news agencies thousands of automated text message citations and warnings have been issued to owners of cars tagged by surveillance cameras as carrying women with immodest or inadequate hijab (mandatory Islamic hair cover). As a result despite the coronavirus crisis and social distancing rules, long lines of people who have received citations have formed queues in front of Tehran’s morality police office on Vozara Avenue.
Many of these people claim they're innocent for example a clergyman has complained on his Twitter account that he has received a citation for improper hijab so he has jokingly pledged not to remove his turban in the future inside his car! Then he continues by saying “I swear I was not on that Street! For God’s sake Why do you these [citations]?”
Another case of mistaken identity was that of Vahid Rajabloo, a well known disabled handicapped entrepreneur who had received a citation for poor hijab despite proof that he was elsewhere attending a meeting at the time the surveillance camera issued the citation.
Afshin Barahooyi, another recipient of the surveillance citation by Morality police has indicated that he has not been in Tehran since March 20 and has no idea how his car was tagged on the streets of Tehran?
Separately, as shown in pictures, the Vice Prevention unit of Tehran police has started to crack down on underground hookah salons now popular with young Iranians:
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