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  • 2020-10-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Tabatabai-Nejad said in the statement. The claim is false.Multiple news media, including state-controlled outlets in Iran, published transcripts of Ayatollah Tabatabai-Nejad’s sermon.According to these publications, he said that women wearing hijab improperly" are a "security issue (en)
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  • On Oct. 2, Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad, the appointee of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the central city of Isfahan, spoke during the Friday prayer he led about the need for tougher measures against women who chose to wear their headscarves more loosely than required by Islamic law.After media reports of his remarks broke in Isfahan and Tehran, he came under public criticism for inciting violence. Iran’s deputy minister of communications, Amir Nazemi, tweeted that Tabatabai-Nejad must make it clear that he was not calling for physical violence.In response, Tabatabai-Nejad released a statement accusing the media of lying and falsifying his words.The misunderstanding of this example and the incorrect mentality of some media outlets caused them to divert public opinion from the main issues and problems of the country by fragmenting the mentioned speech (en)
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