Iran's brutal regime has begun its new plan of using "smart" technology in public places to identify women failing to wear a hijab.
Police officers forces on Saturday announced they will be intensifying their efforts to track teenage girls and women who do not wear so-called proper hijab in streets, shopping centres and cars.
They said they will take action by using tools and smart cameras in public places and thoroughfares.
“The crime of promoting unveiling will be dealt with in the criminal court whose decisions are final and unappealable,” local news quoted Iran’s deputy attorney general Ali Jamadi as saying.
A growing number of women across Iran are rising up and unveiling, wearing their hair long and free, following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police last year.
Ms Amini had been detained for allegedly violating the hijab rule and was allegedly beaten up in custody, leading to her death.
According to the statement, the move is aimed at “preventing resistance against the hijab law,” adding that such resistance against the strict Islamic dress code tarnishes Iran's “spiritual image” and spreads insecurity.
Meanwhile, Ahmad-Reza Radan, the chief commander of Iran’s police, said that the forces under his command will use advanced technology and equipment to identify people who do not observe the mandatory hijab in public places. Women and girls who do not wear scarves in "public places, cars or commercial centres" will be prosecuted, he added.
The uprising that was sparked by the death in ‘hijab police’ custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini has made it increasingly difficult to enforce the mandatory Islamic dress code. Appearing in public without a full veil has become a common sight even in small and more conservative towns.
The Islamic Republic, founded in 1979, is the only Muslim country other than Taliban-ruled Afghanistan with such a strict interpretation of hijab and nationwide coercive measures for its observance.
Two women in Iran were arrested at the start of April after a man threw yoghurt on them for not fully covering their hair, in an incident captured on video.
CCTV footage showing the "yoghurt attack", is believed to have taken place in the city of Shandiz in northeast Iran and has been spreading on social media.
The video shows a man in a chequered shirt approaching one of the women who is unveiled and speaking to her while getting more and more animated.
He is then seen grabbing a pot of what is believed to be yoghurt and throwing it over the pair, which hits them in the head, before being confronted by another man and pushed out of the store.
