Masoud Pezeshkian’s parliamentary deputy introduced that the administration is drafting a invoice to amend the extremely controversial hijab legislation, which the Parliament Speaker had promised would take impact on December 13.
“We will ship an modification invoice to the Parliament to halt [the controversies over its implementation] now to conduct additional investigations,” Deputy President in Parliamentary Affairs, Shahram Dabiri, introduced Saturday.
Reformist media and politicians have extensively criticized the brand new hijab legislation, spearheaded by lawmakers of the Paydari (Steadfastness) Party and their allies within the parliament, notably the Jebhe-ye Sobh-e Iran (MASAF) that was established lower than a yr in the past. Ultra-hardliners of the Parliament have the backing of the Constitutional Guardian Council whose approval is required for all laws.
Both teams have shut ties to the ultra-hardliner former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili who misplaced the latest presidential elections to Pezeshkian and a shadowy cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad-Mehdi Mirbagheri with an especially radical interpretation of the Sharia.
More reformist clerics have criticized the legislation. “This legislation’s implementation is fraught with political and financial issues and [will result in] stirring up hate and aversion to faith … making it official means neglecting the nation’s [serious] political, social, and cultural issues,” Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Ayazi, a member of the reformist affiliation of Qom Seminary clerics informed the average conservative Khabar Online Saturday.
Ayazi additionally argued that ultra-hardliners’ insistence on speedy enforcement of powerful hijab enforcement measures is supposed to sabotage the Pezeshkian authorities’s efforts to treatment the extra pressing issues it’s grappling with. Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Masoudi Khomeini, one other member of the identical affiliation, has expressed an identical view.
Despite agreeing with the hijab as a spiritual precept, a number of top-ranking clerics, together with Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, have criticized ultra-hardliners’ insistence on implementing the brand new legislation in loosely veiled phrases.
“This legislation means that they [the government] wish to lead individuals to paradise by drive,” conservative cleric Mohsen Gharavian who has been an outspoken critic of the brand new hijab legislation informed Khabar Online. “Maybe we don’t wish to go to paradise. What ought to we do [if we don’t]?” he added.
On Saturday, the comparatively impartial Rouydad24 information web site wrote: “It seems that [the delay resulted from] the administration’s negotiations [with higher entities] to postpone the implementation of the Act and make some amendments to it have been profitable.”
Rouydad24 added that authorities on the highest degree could have agreed that the controversial laws formulated by ultra-hardliners can’t be enforced within the present circumstances.
