The director of an Iranian bank has been removed from his post for serving a woman who did not wear a headscarf, reported today a media outlet in Iran, where the headscarf is compulsory for women and which is facing a wave of protests.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the law requires all women to wear a headscarf that covers the head and neck, as well as the hair.
A bank manager in Qom province who offered banking services on Thursday to a woman who was not wearing a headscarf was removed from his duties on the governor's order, according to Qom's deputy governor Ahmad Hajizadeh, whose statements were quoted by Mehr news agency.
The firing of the bank manager comes as Iran is reeling from a wave of controversy following the September 16 death of Mahsha Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman of Kurdish origin who was arrested three days earlier in Tehran by vice police for not wearing her headscarf properly for violating the Islamic Republic's strict dress code.
Mehr Agency reported that the video of this person without a hijab caused many reactions on social media.
The implementation of the headscarf law in government institutions is the responsibility of their director, Hajizadeh noted, according to statements quoted by the agency. In Iran, the majority of banks are state-owned.
Dozens of people, mostly protesters, but also members of the security forces have been killed in the wave of controversy that erupted after the death of Mahsha Amini.
Authorities have condemned what they say are Western-sponsored riots and have arrested thousands of people.
Source: CNA
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