Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)– Jamila Alam Al-Huda, wife of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, stated that interest in “chastity and veiling is a commandment”, calling for confronting the trend that promotes “prostitution and not wearing the veil”, amid a wave of anger following the death of the young woman. Iranian Mahsa Amini.
On Sunday, the Iranian president called Amini’s family, expressed his condolences and confirmed that he had ordered an investigation “to reveal precisely the circumstances of her death,” according to the official Iranian news agency (IRNA).
The young woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, died following falling into a coma, following she was arrested by the Iranian “moral police”, which imposes strict rules on women, such as wearing the headscarf, which sparked a wave of anger among Iranian activists, while US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described Mahsa’s death. Amini called it “unforgivable,” saying that she “was beaten during her detention.
On Sunday evening, IRNA quoted statements by the Iranian president’s wife at the “Women in the Era of Waiting” conference, and said that “Muslim women have a great responsibility to establish religious duties in order to promote harmony in the family, as abandoning their duties threatens the family and society, and they must preserve The Islamic Revolution so that the candle of the revolution does not go out.
She added, “Attention to chastity and the veil is the commandment of most of our martyrs jointly, and here shows our great responsibility in front of the political, economic and media stream that promotes prostitution and not wearing the veil,” according to the official Iranian news agency.
