Wearing hijab is mandatory in Iran. But for the last few years there has been strong opposition to this rule. Iran is working on a special plan regarding women who oppose hijab. Under this, work is going on to open mental health centers across the country. In these clinics, those women who are opposing hijab will be treated.
Mehri Talebi Darestani, head of the Women and Family Department at the Tehran headquarters, said that ‘Hijab Removal Treatment Clinics’ will soon be opened in Iran. Here women will be treated scientifically.
Protests against hijab intensify
There were massive protests against hijab in Iran in 2022-23 after the Mahsa Amini case. Here, in the name of moral policing, atrocities are committed against women for not wearing hijab. Women of Iran are continuously protesting against moral policing. Recently, fed up with all this, an Iranian student took off all her clothes and started roaming around the university only in underwear. The video of this incident also went viral on social media.
After the news of treatment clinic came to light in Iran, protests against it have also started. The Iranian government says that these clinics will be optional. However, social workers believe that this will not be a clinic but a jail.
‘This is not according to Iranian laws’
Iran’s human rights lawyer Husain Raisi has expressed concern about this plan of the government. He said, if a woman refuses to wear hijab then it is not right to take her to a clinic in the name of treatment. This is neither Islamic nor in accordance with Iranian laws.