INU - In our coverage yesterday of the launch of an official matchmaking website in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we pointed out that this attempt to promote speedy marriage and traditional families is of a piece with a broader effort by Iran’s leaders to crack down on the rights of women and to reassert conservative clerical control over the structure of Iranian society.
We referred, for instance, to the growth in efforts to enforce the imposed veiling of women, as by empowering civilian militias to accost women considered to be wearing “bad hejab.” On Wednesday, IranWire reported on an instance of the continued pressure toward such measures. The site pointed out that Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, one of the highest ranking clerics in the Iranian religious center of Qom, had encouraged security forces and others to “act beyond the law” for the sake of enforcing “good hejab.”
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