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The country’s new reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian campaigned on a promise to halt the harassment of women by morality police. In Iran, the hijab — and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some — has long been a political symbol as well. There have been scattered videos of women and young girls being roughed up by officers in the time since. Surveillance cameras search for women uncovered in vehicles to fine and impound their cars. The government has gone as far as use aerial drones to monitor the 2024 Tehran International Book Fair and Kish Island for uncovered women, the U.N. said.
Persons: Mahsa Amini, there’s, Masoud Pezeshkian, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, , Amini, Khamenei, Ebrahim Raisi, Pezeshkian, Hamid Zarrinjouei, , Mohammad Movahedi Azad, Movahedi Azad, Ham Mihan, hadn’t, Simin Kazemi Organizations: United Nations, Tehran Sharif University, Metro, Pezeshkian, Iran’s, Iran’s Ministry of Culture Locations: it’s, Iran, Tehran, Tehran Sharif, Kish
Cairo CNN —Iranian authorities have banned a film festival after a promotional poster showed an actress not wearing the hijab, a headcover worn by many Muslim women, the country’s state-run media outlet IRNA reported Saturday. The 13th edition of the Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA) festival was banned after Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance deemed the poster inappropriate, according to IRNA. The image that caused the festival to be banned is a promotional poster for the 1982 film “The Death of Yazdgerd,” starring Susan Taslimi, AFP reports. A video circulating on pro-government channels purports to show a ceremony during which the poster was unveiled by a woman not wearing the hijab. Given current sensitivities around the removal of the hijab, the publication of the poster is deemed against social interests,” Samoui told IRNA.
Persons: , , Mohammad Mehdi Samoui, Amini, Susan Taslimi, ” Samoui, IRNA, Saeid Montazeralmahdi Organizations: Cairo CNN, Film, Iran’s Ministry of Culture, Mizan News Agency Locations: Cairo, Iran, Tehran, Fars, Shandiz
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