The Iranian Police has announced that it will install cameras and other “smart media” to avoid “tension” and “conflict” over the application of the law that requires the use of hijab or islamic veil.

“The Police will use innovative tools and smart cameras on public roads to avoid any tension and conflict with compatriots related to the hijab law to identify people who violate the Hijab Law and Public Chastity”, the Police explained in a statement collected by the Iranian news agency Mizan and the radio station American in Farsi Radio Farda, an affiliate of Radio Liberty.

These cameras will initially be used for send “warning messages” to those who fail to fulfill their prerogatives and “warn them of the legal consequences of repeating this crime”. However, one of the most radical members of the islamic council Farvardin, Hossein Yalali, had warned of economic penalties, withdrawal of driving license, the passport or the Internet service within the so-called Afaf and Hijab plan.

The authorities have also warned radical groups that don’t take the law into your own hands and assault or harass women who do not wear the Islamic headscarf. In recent months, several images and videos of verbal aggression and physical actions against women without hijabs, such as the one that last week was carried out by a member of the Basij paramilitaries who threw yoghurt on an unveiled woman in Shandiz.

Following the death in custody of a Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini After being arrested in Tehran for not wearing the hijab, protests against the government have multiplied, as has the number of Iranians who do not wear the hijab. hijab put on in public.