Walking around in her underwear among her veiled classmatesin the middle of the campus of the prestigious Azad University in Tehranan Iranian student wanted to “protest against the abusive application of the compulsory veiling by security guards” at the university, argues the organization. Amnesty International. She has been “transferred to a specialized care center”, announced the Iranian embassy in Paris in a statement on Wednesday, referring to “psychological fragility”.
This Wednesday, the Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei, sees a completely different explanation for this courageous act, and claims that the behavior of the Iranian woman who undressed in public in Tehran was “immoral”. “She broke the norms and her behavior was not appropriate. based on sharia law (Islamic law), it was immoral and contrary to customs”, said Hossein Simaei, on the sidelines of a government meeting. The student has “not” been expelled from her university, the minister added.
“Those who republished these images have propagated prostitution”
As a reminder, the video of the young woman in her underwear, first sitting and then walking slowly in front of Azad University in Tehran, has gone viral on social networks since last weekend. Media outlets in Iran even broadcast images of the scene, blurring out the young girl. “ Those who republished these images have propagated prostitution”, castigated Hossein Simaei, believing that this gesture was justified “neither morally nor religiously”. “The motives and reasons for this student’s act are being investigated,” Azad University’s public relations officer Amir Mahjoub said on Saturday. “University security intervened and handed her over to the police station,” he wrote on Iran’s blocked social network X, claiming that the student was “under heavy pressure and suffering from mental disorders”. The spokeswoman for Iranian governmentFatemeh Mohajerani, on Wednesday denied reports that the student had been brutally arrested.
In an unusual statement, the embassy of Iran in France assured that “this student was suffering from certain family problems and fragile psychological conditions”. “Signs of abnormal behavior had already been observed by those around her,” the statement said.