Two detained in Iran after women run marathon without Islamic veil | OneFootball

The Iranian authorities arrested on Saturday the “two main organizers” of a marathon held the previous day in Kish (south), in which women participated without the Islamic veil.

“One of the detained individuals is an employee of the Kish free zone, and the other works for the private company that organized the competition,” announced the judiciary’s Mizan news agency.

These events coincide with a time when some officials in the country are denouncing a growing disregard for the obligation to wear the veil, imposed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. According to local media, more than 5,000 people participated on Friday morning in the Kish marathon, a tourist island in southern Iran, on the shores of the Gulf.

In several of the races reserved for women, some of them ran without covering their heads, violating the obligation in force in Iran for four decades, according to images shared on social media. The prosecutor general of Kish, quoted Friday night by the Mizan agency, stated that holding the event “was contrary to decency,” and “legal proceedings” have been opened against the organizers.

The Tasnim news agency criticized a “total lack of supervision and the disregard for dress codes by a significant portion of the participants.”

However, this obligation is increasingly less respected in Iran, where many women now go out in public without the Islamic veil, some wearing light clothing. This phenomenon, unimaginable a few years ago, seems to have grown even more since the end of the war in June against Israel, especially in the capital, Tehran.

In contrast, this week, more than half of the deputies criticized the judiciary for the lack of enforcement of the law. The head of the judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejei, once again defended greater firmness on Thursday.

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