On Friday, October 2, 2016, Yousef Tabatabainejad, the leader of Friday prayer in Isfahan, in a meeting with law enforcement officials, called for “insecurity” in the area for women who do not wear hijab correctly, and explicitly stated that they should have “more authority” to deal with women.
The Islamic Republic has made hijab mandatory for women for more than 40 years. In recent years, Iranian girls and women have been trying to ignore this unjust law and appear in public without hijab as an act of non-violent civil disobedience. Tabatabainejad’s statement was mainly related to women who did not wear hijab or who, according to the religious extremist’s opinions, wore it badly.