Iranian judicial authorities issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for two women whose heads were sprayed with yogurt by a man in a shop for failing to wear the mandatory Islamic headscarf, while ordering the attacker's arrest.
The court decision comes a day after a video went viral in which a man is seen arguing with a woman and her daughter who are not wearing a veil in a store and dumping a jar of yogurt on their heads, reported the Mizan agency.
The clerk of the store located in the town of Shandiz, neighboring the holy city of Mashad, in the northeast of the country, responded by pushing the assailant of the two women into the street.
The Shandiz prosecutor's office ordered the arrest of the two women for not covering themselves with the mandatory Islamic veil and that of the attacker for "disturbing public order," according to Mizan, an agency of the Judiciary.
For his part, the clerk has received a "reprimand" for allowing the presence of veiled women in his establishment, a mandatory garment in the country since 1983.
The incident occurred amid heightened tensions in Iran following protests sparked by the death in September of Mahsa Amini after being arrested for not wearing the hijab properly, in a revolt calling for the end of the Islamic Republic.
The protests have almost disappeared after a strong state repression that has caused nearly 500 deaths and in which four protesters have been hanged, one of them in public. But many women have stopped wearing the veil in the streets of the Islamic country, in a form of protest and disobedience.
Given the continuous female gestures of civil disobedience, more and more conservative voices are calling for the laws that impose this garment to be applied. The Interior Ministry this week described the headscarf "as one of the pillars of the civilization of the Iranian nation," one of "the principles of the Islamic Republic" and "a religious necessity."
Iranian media has reported that the Iranian authorities are preparing a new law to re-impose the wearing of the headscarf that could carry penalties of up to $6,000.
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