Iran's Deputy Police Chief Announces Dealing with "Improper Hijab on Sidewalks and Cyberspace"
Qasem Rezaei, the deputy commander of Iran's police force, has said that in the 3rd and 4th Inspector Plans, those who, according to him, do not observe the hijab in parks, sidewalks, and cyberspace will be "dealt with."
Speaking in the city of Yasuj on Sunday, September 20, he considered the implementation of these plans to be related to the macro-policies of chastity and hijab.
According to this senior police commander, the police force has a four-stage plan to deal with people who, he said, "wear bad hijab," in "Plan 1," "people who do not wear hijab in cars" are dealt with, and in "Plan 2," "people who wear bad hijab and those who do not wear hijab in shopping malls and large stores" are dealt with.
He did not provide further explanation about the mechanism for implementing the plan to deal with non-observance of the hijab in cyberspace or on sidewalks, but in recent days, the mass sending of text messages related to the implementation of the Observer One plan, which concerns the observance of the hijab in cars, has caused controversy.
A significant number of social media users on Twitter and Instagram announced on September 13 that they had been summoned to the "moral security police" by sending a text message known as "Hijab discovered in a car."
Among the recipients of these text messages, which appear to have been sent en masse and randomly, were users wearing headscarves, celebrities, and at least one cleric who expressed surprise at receiving such a text message.
After this issue was widely covered on social media, IRNA news agency quoted an informed source in the Iranian police force as saying that the reason for sending a large volume of "text messages about removing the hijab in a car" to citizens in just one day was a "technical defect" in the system for sending these text messages.
The source also emphasized that despite the recent glitches, "every single text message" was sent correctly and "none of them were sent without reason."
In recent years, law enforcement officials have reported the seizure of tens of thousands of vehicles and their occupants for "revealing the hijab."
Source: Radio Farda
