Iran’s hardliners employ female ‘hijab enforcers’ to spy on bare-headed women and bundle them into vans for interrogation in new crackdown [Video]

Iran‘s hardliners have employed female ‘hijab enforcers’ to spy on bare-headed women and bundle them into vans for interrogation amid a new crackdown. 

The new enforcers, dressed in black from head to toe, have been ordered to stand on the streets of cities in Iran over the past three weeks, patrolling cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, metro stations and universities. 

It comes after a number of recent videos showed officials stalking the streets of Iran looking for women in breach of the Islamic Republic’s dress code laws, with one clip showing a woman being bundled into the back of a white van. 

Women discovered without a headscarf on, or found to be wearing fitted trousers, are approached and sent to the morality police. Then, patrol locations are decided and assigned to the enforcers by the Iranian authorities. 

The crackdown follows protests that swept the country in 2022 after the death of Mahsa …