Source: Radio Zamaneh
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Hardline cleric, Ahamd Jannati delivered unusual
rebukes to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his Friday Mass Prayers sermon in Tehran for
his remarks on women's hijab.
In a live interview aired on Sunday, Ahamdinejad said he is against the harsh
confrontation of Security Forces with people donning unacceptable forms of hijab
(Muslim attire). He stressed that he is against such confrontations and will not
condone it.
Iranian women, who are obligated by Islamic Republic laws to cover themselves
from head to foot in public, have worn the compulsory outfit in different forms
fashioning out unique styles. A recent wave of conservative backlash has charged
various government bodies with confrontation of hijab transgressions.
More moderate sources have urged a more cultural recourse to resolving the
offences against Islamic attire in public.
ILNA reports that Ayatollah Janati has rebuked Ahmadinejad for interfering in
the business of the security forces. He suggested that if the government does
not dare address the violations against appropriate hijab on the streets, it
should start confronting it in government offices.

Pro-hijab protests in Tehran - May 2010
The conservative cleric argued: "The corruption that is spread by a woman with
inappropriate hijab is worse that poison and as a result of it a young man who
should be ready for jihad and self-sacrifice will be drawn to lust."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was also criticized by Mashhad Friday Prayers Leader saying
Ahmadinejad was not attentive to religious matters.
The member of the Assembly of Experts stated that the issue of hijab was a
religious issue and not subject to people's will or acceptance.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent moderate exclamations regarding adherence to hijab
appears in complete contradiction to his policy of deploying female morality
patrols to arrest women with inappropriate hijab after he first came to power in
2005.

Pro-hijab protests in Tehran - May
2010