The Iranian authorities announced this Wednesday that several actresses have been subject to a work ban after appearing in public without a veil, mandatory within the dress code in the Central Asian country.
“We have already said that the hijab is part of the law and we apply the law,” said Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohamad Mehdi Esmeili, as reported by the Iranian news agency IRNA.
“I have announced on several occasions that it is not possible for people who do not comply with the law to work,” she said, without at the moment providing details on the number of actresses affected.
Iran’s Parliament approved a bill in September that toughens punishments against women and girls who violate the country’s strict dress code, including the mandatory use of the veil, a draft that came to be called “gender apartheid.” ” by United Nations experts.
The authorities have hardened their position on the application of the use of the veil, accompanied by the redeployment of agents of the so-called “morality police”, after months of withdrawal due to protests following the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini in September 2022 when she was in custody after being detained in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab incorrectly.
