This is the shocking moment an alleged moral police officer attacked a screaming teenager and forced her to the ground.
The teenager was reportedly harassed by the officer for refusing to cover her hair, violating Iran’s strict laws governing what women can wear.
Footage of the incident was captured in what appears to be a busy public park in Iran (reportedly Borujerd) and shared on social media.
The clip begins with a group of people huddled together next to a tree and a low brick wall, while passersby look on.
Screams are heard coming from a person in the middle of the group, and it is clear that some people are fighting each other.
This is the shocking moment an alleged moral police officer attacked a screaming teenager and forced her to the ground.
Footage of the incident was captured in what appears to be a busy public park in Iran (reportedly Borujerd) and shared on social media. The teenager was pushed to the ground by the suspicious moral police officer. His fate was unclear from the images.
Suddenly, the teenager is seen falling backwards next to the wall, with an older woman, dressed in a full black hijab, landing on top of her.
The older woman is said to be an officer in Iran’s morality police, a group that imposes the Islamic State’s strict dress code on women.
The older woman appears to be trying to control the teen, but the young man continues to scream and fight the attempts.
She appears to successfully kick the older women, who get up, but then returns to the girl who is lying on the ground and attempts to lift her off the ground.
Some of the bystanders also get involved, but by the end of the clip it’s not clear who they’re trying to help: the older women or the teenager.
According to Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist who shared the images, the person who filmed the video gave details about the incident.
“The so-called Morality Police in Iran violently attacked a teenager for not wearing a hijab in the city of Borujerd, Iran,” Alinejad wrote on X along with the video.
“The citizen who filmed this incident told me that a police officer in a hijab attempted to brutally arrest the teenager for wearing a T-shirt,” she said. “However, because she screamed for help, people gathered and saved her from the police.”
‘Watch the video for yourself and you’ll understand why we urge you all to be #UnitedAgainstGenderApartheid.’
According to Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist who shared the footage, the person who filmed the video said the teenager was saved by bystanders.
The clip is the latest in a series showing what appears to be a renewed effort by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to enforce his regime’s draconian laws.
Tehran announced ‘Project Nour’ last month, according to the Jerusalem Post, which aims to ‘tackle the anomalies’.
This has resulted in the strong presence of the country’s Guidance Patrol, also known as the moral police (Islamic police and vice squad) in several cities.
Police have been instructed to focus on “positive behaviors” and avoid using “negative behaviors,” according to Iran’s Mehr news agency.
However, the Jerusalem Post report suggests that the crackdown has been violent.
He said there have been reports in the country of sexual harassment, beatings, widespread arrests, breaking windows and using Tasers.
Iran’s crackdown also comes just a week after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said wearing the hijab was of “utmost importance,” the publication says.
He also accused foreigners in the country of “hiring” women not to wear the hijab.
The crackdown also comes 18 months after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who, in September 2022, died in custody after being arrested for allegedly violating the Islamic dress code.
Amini’s death sparked months of mass protests across Iran and marked the biggest challenge to Iran’s clerical leaders in decades.
This video (pictured) emerged last month and shows officers arresting women and putting them into white vans as part of Tehran’s crackdown on women’s clothing.
An alleged morality policeman is seen arguing harshly with a woman on the street before leading her towards a van, even though she appears to be wearing a hijab.
More than 500 people were reportedly killed as the regime in Tehran counterattacked protesters, who gained support from around the world.
In March, a United Nations-mandated fact-finding mission said Amini’s death in the custody of Iran’s moral police was “illegal” and caused by violence and that women in the country remain subject to widespread discrimination.
“Our investigation established that his death was unlawful and caused by physical violence in the custody of state authorities,” Sara Hossain, president of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He said the protests that followed were marked by “egregious human rights violations,” including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and ill-treatment, as well as rape and sexual violence.
“These acts were carried out in the context of a widespread and systematic attack against women and girls, and others expressing their support for human rights,” Hossain said.
Iran’s crackdown comes just a week after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said wearing the hijab was of “utmost importance,” the publication says.
“Some of these serious human rights violations thus rose to the level of crimes against humanity.”
In response, Kazem Gharib Abadi, secretary general of Iran’s High Human Rights Council, accused the fact-finding mission of a “flagrant lack of independence and impartiality.”
Hossain said that since the protests, women and girls in Iran faced daily discrimination “that affected virtually every aspect of their public and private lives.”
“It is difficult to imagine that in the 21st century, women’s access to the most basic services and opportunities, such as schools, universities, hospitals and courts, or to employment opportunities in government or other sectors, should be subject to a total overhaul .arbitrary requirement to wear the mandatory hijab,” he said.
