Iran’s New Hijab Plan Includes Fines Up to $6,000

Mohsen Rafighdoost, a former Iranian Revolutionary Guards military officer and politician. (TASNIM)
Mohsen Rafighdoost, a former Iranian Revolutionary Guards military officer and politician. (TASNIM)
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Iran’s New Hijab Plan Includes Fines Up to $6,000

Mohsen Rafighdoost, a former Iranian Revolutionary Guards military officer and politician. (TASNIM)
Mohsen Rafighdoost, a former Iranian Revolutionary Guards military officer and politician. (TASNIM)

Iranian authorities are preparing a new Hijab Plan that includes fines up to $6,000 on defiant women breaching the country’s mandatory Hijab rule, revealed hardliner lawmaker and member of parliament’s cultural committee Hossein Jalali.

There will be fines issued for women who break dress code regulations, ranging from 5,000 Iranian rials to 30 billion Iranian rials (between $10-$6000), said the deputy from Rafsanjan.

Iran’s Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution and Supreme National Security Council had approved the plan after holding 300 meetings, said Jalali.

Imposing fines as punishment for those refusing to abide by the country’s veil rules was run by the Iranian Supreme Leader’s office and the judiciary, he affirmed.

Jalali, according to Iranian news websites, said the government should prepare and present a bill for enforcing the new plan within two weeks. Parliament will then adopt and enforce the law.

Government bodies mentioned by Jalali and the judiciary did not comment on the matter.

“The situation of the Hijab would be better than in the past,” claimed Jalali.

Jalali said the new plan would be implemented through an intelligent system and not entail physical confrontation with women who do not observe the veil.

According to Jalali, agencies in charge of enforcing the mandatory Hijab would monitor seven groups of places: inside the vehicles, inside public places and restaurants, government offices and departments, educational centers and universities, airports and terminals, the cyberspace, celebrities, and in the streets and public thoroughfares.

Revoking driver’s licenses and passports and banning Internet use are also among the punishments for women who do not observe the mandatory Hijab rules. They will also see those individuals with websites, social media channels, or many followers and members could not use the Internet.

Despite widespread protests declining nationwide, triggers and chances of resurgence are still the focus of discussion between politicians and agencies involved in decision-making in Iran.

Mohsen Rafighdoost, a former Iranian Revolutionary Guards military officer and politician, blamed foreign enemies and maladministration of being key factors in protests rocking Iran for six months.

“All the problems in the country have economic roots, if we can solve them, the rest of the problems will be solved more easily,” Rafighdoost told state-run “ISNA” in a recorded interview.

Stressing that problems facing the livelihood of Iranians are now ailing a large segment of society, Rafighdoost argued that addressing these issues is not really on the demonstrations’ agenda.

He pointed out that the majority of those arrested in the protests are from the “upper class.”

Rafighdoost, however, did not indicate the number of detainees.

Crowds that staged the protests “were largely dispersed,” claimed the former military officer, adding that the movement lacked true “leaders.”

Rafighdoost accused candidates who the protesters presented as leaders of being notoriously corrupt.

He also talked about the parliament and government needing a “revolution,” and criticized the selling of state assets, saying that it will only offer temporary relief.

According to Rafighdoost, 35 million out of about 85 million Iranians suffer from a very difficult living situation.

“If left to their fate, these millions will revolt,” warned Rafighdoost.

Without referring to numbers, Rafighdoost claimed: “The death toll of law enforcement forces (police) is more than the death toll of protesters.”

“We want to show the world that these people do not seek reform, but rather sabotage,” he noted.

Rafighdoost, however, disagreed with forcibly compelling the hijab, saying that it will lead to a negative reaction from the public.



Irish University to Cut Links with Israel Over Gaza War

 A picture taken from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank rolling along the border fence on June 4, 2025. (AFP)
A picture taken from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank rolling along the border fence on June 4, 2025. (AFP)
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Irish University to Cut Links with Israel Over Gaza War

 A picture taken from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank rolling along the border fence on June 4, 2025. (AFP)
A picture taken from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank rolling along the border fence on June 4, 2025. (AFP)

Ireland's prestigious Trinity College Dublin said on Wednesday that it would cut all links with Israel in protest at "ongoing violations of international and humanitarian law".

The university's board informed students by email on Wednesday that it had accepted the recommendations of a taskforce to sever "institutional links with the State of Israel, Israeli universities and companies headquartered in Israel".

The recommendations would be "enacted for the duration of the ongoing violations of international and humanitarian law", said the email sent by the board's chairman Paul Farrell, and seen by AFP.

The taskforce was set up after part of the university's campus in central Dublin was blockaded by students for five days last year in protest at Israel's actions in Gaza.

Among the taskforce's recommendations approved by the board were pledges to divest "from all companies headquartered in Israel" and to "enter into no future supply contracts with Israeli firms" and "no new commercial relationships with Israeli entities".

The university also said that it would "enter into no further mobility agreements with Israeli universities".

Trinity has two current Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli universities: Bar Ilan University, an agreement that ends in July 2026, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which ends in July 2025, the university told AFP in an email.

The board also said that the university "should not submit for approval or agree to participate in any new institutional research agreements involving Israeli participation".

It "should seek to align itself with like-minded universities and bodies in an effort to influence EU policy concerning Israel's participation in such collaborations," it added.

Ireland has been among the most outspoken critics of Israel's response to the October 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza.

Polls since the start of the war have shown overwhelming pro-Palestinian sympathy in Ireland.

In May 2024, Dublin joined several other European countries in recognizing Palestine as a "sovereign and independent state".

It then joined South Africa in bringing a case before the International Court of Justice in the Hague accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza -- charges angrily denied by Israeli leaders.

In December, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar ordered the closure of the country's embassy in Dublin, blaming Ireland's "extreme anti-Israel policies".