(Tehran) Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei, said on Wednesday that the behavior of the Iranian woman who undressed in public on Saturday in front of a university in Tehran was “immoral”.
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“She broke the norms and her behavior was not based on sharia (Islamic law, Editor’s note), it was immoral and contrary to customs,” declared Mr. Simaei, on the sidelines of a government meeting.
The student was “not” excluded from her university, added the minister.
The video of the young woman in her underwear, first sitting then walking slowly in front of Azad University in Tehran, has gone viral since last weekend on social networks.
Media in Iran broadcast images of the scene, blurring the young girl.
“Those who republished these images have propagated prostitution,” criticized Hossein Simaei, saying that this gesture was justified “neither morally nor religiously.”
“The motivations and reasons for this student’s action are under investigation,” Azad University public relations manager Amir Mahjoub said on Saturday.
“The university security intervened and handed her over to the police station,” he wrote on the social network X blocked in Iran, claiming that the student was “under great pressure and suffering from mental disorders “.
Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani on Wednesday denied reports that the student had been brutally arrested.
The organization Amnesty International, based abroad, claims that the student “removed her clothes to protest against the abusive application of the compulsory wearing of the veil by security agents” of the university.
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, the law in Iran has imposed a strict dress code on women, who are required to wear headscarves and loose clothing that conceals their shapes.
In an unusual statement, the Iranian embassy in France assured that “this student suffered from certain family problems and fragile psychological conditions”.
“Signs of abnormal behavior had already been observed by those around him,” underlines the press release.
