After several months of protests in Iran at the end of 2022, the morals were abolished, but now the Iranian government uses thinner tools to control the wearing of hijab women in the country.
Iranian women are fined and pursued for violation of laws on wearing hijab, identifying them using a person recognition system. Iran women claim that they received by mail notifications of violations of the law without warning or personal communication with law enforcement agencies.
The head of the Iranian State Agency, which ensures compliance with the Law on Morality, Mohammed Saleh Hashemi Golpaegani said that the technology will be used “to identify inappropriate and unusual movements,” including “non -compliance with the laws on wearing hijab.” According to him, people can be identified by checking persons with the national database of personality in order to impose fines and arrest.
Iran’s government spent years to create a digital observation device. The database of national identification of the country, created in 2015, includes biometric data and is used for national identity certificates and to identify people whom the authorities consider to be dissidents.