The president of the Iran Athletics Federation resigned this Sunday due to the participation of women who did not wear the mandatory headscarf in a sporting event, an official media announced.
“Hashem Siami left his post due to controversies linked to a drag race competition organized in Chiraz,” a large city in southern Iran, the Irna news agency reported. According to images broadcast in the Iranian media, some women participated in the test on Friday without wearing the headscarf.
This incident follows the entry into force in mid-April of a new police plan to tighten the control of wearing the veil by women, something mandatory since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The prosecutor of the province of Fars, where Shiraz is located, announced on Sunday that he was going to summon the organizers of the event to receive “explanations”.
Siami told Irna that her federation was not the organizer of the competition and that women who did not wear headscarves were not part of her body’s group of athletes.
In recent months, more and more women have been unveiled in public places, especially after the start of the protest movement sparked by the death in detention of Mahsa Amini in September for breaching the strict dress code.
At least four famous actresses were questioned by the authorities last week after appearing in public in Tehran without the mandatory headscarf.
On April 16, the authorities had indicated that more than 150 commercial establishments had been closed in 24 hours for not having respected the obligation to wear the veil by employees. In Chiraz, the Police had arrested several young women who had participated bareheaded in a skateboard event, as well as organizers, more than a year ago.
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