Mullah Mohsen Shabestari, Khamenei’s representative in East Azerbaijan Province, tried to manipulate a ceremony marking the decease of Fatemeh Zahra, the most renowned female figure in Islam and daughter of the Prophet Mohamed, by describing her as a reactionary symbol of the misogynist regime ruling Iran by summarizing her traits and character as someone who abided to the hijab, a wife who attended to her husband and a mother.
He then deceitfully began justifying measures to impose forced veiling on women by the regime’s elements by stating, “Fatemeh always viewed ‘promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice’ as key in creating reform among people in society.”
In efforts to raise the morale of the regime’s forces and to reiterate his main objective, he added, “The agents of virtue and preventers of vice must never be demised in punishing those who promote vice, they must act more decisively and increase their efforts.”
(State-run IRNA website – March 24, 2015)
