An Iranian bank manager who served a woman without hijab has been fired according to the local media reports on Sunday. The rule of mandatory head covering in the Islamic republic triggered the demonstrations.
The country’s morality police have introduced a new law which makes it mandatory for the Iranian woman to cover their heads, necks and hair.
The death of Mahsa Amini, 22-years-old woman in the police custody for allegedly breaching the dress code rules, sparked nationwide protests in Iran.
The bank manager in the province of Qom, close to the capital Tehran, “had supplied bank services to an unveiled woman on Thursday,” according to Mehr news agency.
He was thus “removed from his job by direction of the governor,” deputy governor Ahmad Hajizadeh was cited as saying by Mehr.
The footage showed the woman in her lingerie “elicited a lot of reaction on social media,” according to Mehr.
The majority of banks in Iran are run by the government, and according to Hajizadeh, it is the managers’ duty to enforce the hijab rule.
The demonstrations have taken away the lives of dozens of people, mainly protesters but also members of the security forces.
Four years after the 1979 revolution that established the Islamic Republic and toppled the US-backed monarchy, the headscarf was made obligatory.
Later, when fashion standards changed, it became typical to see women wearing loose, colourful headscarves with tight trousers.
Extremely conservative President Ebrahim Raisi, however, called for the mobilisation of “all state institutions to implement the headscarf rule” in July of this year.
Many women continued to bend the rules, however.
