Thursday, November 14, 2024 - Iran has set up a specialist mental health clinic in Tehran where Iranian women who resist wearing the hijab are to be given treatment.
The centre, called the Clinic for Quitting Hijab Removal, is
the Islamic Republic’s latest attempt to quash female dissent that
has swept the country since the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in 2022.
Mehri Talebi Darestani, who will run the centre, said it
“will be for the scientific and psychological treatment of removing the hijab,
specifically for the teenage generation, young adults, and women seeking social
and Islamic identity”.
She said the project is focused on promoting “dignity,
modesty, chastity, and hijab” and claimed that attendance would be “optional”.
The clinic will be overseen by Iran’s Headquarters for
Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil, the government body responsible for
enforcing strict religious standards across society.
The department is under sanctions by the UK and other
countries for human rights abuses and its brutal sanctioning of women who do
not adhere to Iran’s Islamic dress codes.
It is led by Mohammed Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani, who was
directly appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Earlier this month, a university student from the Islamic
Azad University in Tehran stripped to her underwear to protest
against the demands that women wear the hijab. She was branded mentally ill and
taken to a psychiatric facility.
The anti-hijab movement gained traction after the death
of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody in Tehran in 2022. The
22-year-old had been arrested for not wearing her hijab properly.
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