Mehri Talebi Darestani, director of women and family at Tehran's macabre Virtue Promotion and Vice Prevention Headquarters, announced on Wednesday the creation of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” that will provide “scientific and psychological treatment” to women. Women refuse to comply with Iran's strict scarf laws.
“Visits to this center are voluntary,” Darestani insisted.
Iran International, an opposition news organization, very skeptical Regarding this claim, Dagestan's president points out that he reports directly to a male superior appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, and that most of his orders are “voluntary” or “voluntary.” The medical departments that will be implementing the “Hijab Removal Treatment Clinic” are as follows. authorized against human rights violations.
Daghestani, who has “supported and promoted child marriage on state television,” was the head of the Ministry of Labor's inspection center until he was fired under “unclear circumstances.”
“Iranian authorities are increasingly using mental health institutions to manage dissent, a method condemned by human rights activists as psychologically abusive and manipulative.”・International said.
Iranian women have long resented the theocracy's hijab laws. In September 2022, death A young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini was murdered at the hands of Iran's “morality police” after being abducted for allegedly not wearing her headscarf correctly, sparking mass protests across the country. Ta.
The protests became known as the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement. brutally crushed By the Iranian regime and its paramilitary rogue forces. Opposition to the hijab law remains strong, especially among young Iranian women, many of whom are afraid to speak out anonymously.
“It's not going to be a clinic, it's going to be a prison. We're struggling to make ends meet, there's power outages, but what this state is worried about is rags. If we all If there's ever a time for us to go back to town, it's now, or they'll lock us all up,” said one anonymous young woman. said England guardian On Thursday, news broke about the Hijab Removal Treatment Clinic.
Shima Sabet, an Iranian journalist based in the UK, said: “The idea of setting up clinics to 'cure' savage women is appalling. They will be separated,” he said.
Sabet was one of two Iranian dissident journalists. targeted He was charged with an assassination in London two years ago in a murder-for-hire plot carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
The Iranian regime's idea to treat hijab protesters as mentally ill was likely inspired by a young woman. stripped away In early November, she wore her underwear at Islamic Azad University in Tehran. After taking her into custody, police announced that she was under “severe psychological stress and suffered from a mental disorder.”
Iranian media reported, “The perpetrator of this act has severe mental problems, and as a result of the investigation, there is a high possibility that he will be transferred to a psychiatric hospital.''
The fate of a young woman from Islamic Azad University unknown But her situation is likely unpleasant, as she was called upon and beaten by brutal Basij militia at the protest site. Witnesses said she only took off the rest of her clothes because the Basij thugs had already torn off her jacket. Some Iranian media reported that the woman was confined in a psychiatric hospital after her arrest.
