Secretary of the Headquarters for Enjoining Good: If someone does not fasten the chastity and hijab belt, they will be fined.
The scope of criminalization in the social domain is expanding, and it seems that along with economic inflation, we are also facing inflation in laws and social confrontations.
In this situation, the Etemad newspaper reports that the secretary of the Headquarters for Enjoining Good, noting that the number of improperly veiled individuals in the country has exceeded 50%, speaks of new legal definitions that, in his opinion, will create more effective cultural impact on the subject of hijab.
The newspaper quotes him saying that the morality police actually rise in support of the people, meaning when an unveiled person enters a shop and the shop owner does not warn them and provides services, the shop’s license plate gets fined. If the person who has removed their hijab insists on receiving services, the morality police, in support of the shop owner, fines that individual.
Hashemi Golpayegani added that if someone does not fasten the chastity and hijab belt, after one or two warnings, they are fined, and in subsequent instances, the fines double and triple. It may seem that we have reduced a crime to an infraction, but it is effective, impactful, enforceable, and feasible.