The member of the committee of the Hijab Bill removed the sword from his face;

According to the report of Ekhtazonline, quoting from Khabaronline, “dismissal of government employees”, “imposition of heavy fines”, “legal treatment and punishment of celebrities” and… are among the important clauses of the Chastity and Hijab Bill, which is a member of the special commission for reviewing the Chastity and Hijab Bill in A discussion mentions them and says that these fines and heavy punishment are considered with the aim of not repeating and are not counted on hijab fines as a source of income.

Mehdi Bagheri, a member of the special commission to examine the chastity and hijab bill, defending the principle of making this bill into 85, says: “It was a specialized debate, the parliament could not review the chastity and hijab bill.”

This member of the parliament emphasizes about the going back and forth of this bill between the parliament and the Guardian Council;

You can read parts of Bagheri’s interview below:

Most of the cases of the chastity and hijab bill are related to cultural issues. Of course, the part of the bill that was sent by the judiciary has a judicial and legal nature, in which there is also criminalization, but it is not only criminalization. However, with the coordination that took place between the judiciary, the government and the parliament, we accepted all the legitimate criticisms that were in the society about this bill.
Of course, I believe that positive actions are the most important part that can advance the work in the discussion of chastity and hijab. In other words, in my opinion, 99% of issues related to hijab and chastity in the country can be realized with positive activities in the society and only 1% can be realized with negative actions.
This point means the vast predominance of cultural work. Therefore, when we wanted to draft a law in the field of hijab and chastity, we believed that we should consider many cultural issues in this law, but there was a problem in this way, when the judiciary drafts a bill, it It is a judicial bill, and due to the cultural missions it has in the country, the government should have attached cultural issues to the modesty and hijab bill and brought a comprehensive bill regarding hijab and modesty to the parliament. We want the judiciary to take a comprehensive action on chastity and hijab, as a result, the judiciary only dealt with legal and judicial issues in the chastity and hijab bill.
The government’s view on the Chastity and Hijab bill was to have approvals in the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution as the highest decision-making and cultural policy-making body of the system, but the noteworthy point is that the approvals of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution are not laws but under the law. In other words, the resolution of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution cannot be accompanied by criminalization, and only the parliament can include the issues of criminalization in its resolutions. In addition, the resolutions of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution in the field of hijab and chastity do not have the necessary executive guarantees.
It is because of this executive guarantee that there are no approvals from the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution that 32 cultural institutions in the country, which were required to take action in the field of hijab and chastity, and the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution had set tasks for them, did not take action and we could not deal with them. Rather, we could only get a report on whether we had done this action or not, but we had no punishment for not doing it. As a result, with the coordination of the parliament, the judiciary and the government, along with criminalization, the approvals of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution in the field of hijab and modesty were considered as a cultural appendix in the modesty and hijab bill.
Also, in the content of the chastity and hijab bill, cultural issues prevailed and the said bill was removed from the judicial status. The advantage of considering cultural issues along with criminalization issues was that we heard all the criticisms in the society about the chastity and hijab bill and acted in the same direction. Also, we directed the bill from a purely negative and judicial point of view towards cultural issues.
The problem is also related to legal issues, in this way that the nature of the judicial bill has changed and the chastity and hijab bill was no longer the bill sent by the judiciary. Another point is that legally, the Guardian Council can legally review the Chastity and Hijab bill, if its nature is preserved and the government accepts it as its own bill, and on the other hand, the judiciary accepts it as its own bill and takes responsibility for it. take over Moreover, if the parliament changes the financial executive responsibilities that the government includes in the bills, the Guardian Council does not accept this change and says that this change is subject to the approval of the government. In the case of the judicial branch, the opinion of this branch should be considered in the bill of chastity and hijab.
These few issues caused us not to discuss the chastity and hijab bill alone in the parliament, because we had to consider the government’s opinion in some cases, such as financial issues, and on the other hand, due to the fact that the judiciary had issued a bill, we had to consider the opinion of the government in judicial issues. We also considered this power from a legislative point of view. The important point is that from the executive point of view, the judicial branch should implement the Chastity and Hijab bill, so we had to take into account their capabilities and that they would accept the changes included in the mentioned bill.
Another thing about the chastity and hijab bill is related to technical and specialized issues. Of course, some people do not pay attention to the fact that Article 85 of the Constitution, which allows the parliament to approve in some cases when it is necessary, the bill or plan in question will be followed up and determined by the commission based on Article 85, in fact, it is an approach of the Chastity Bill. And hijab was related to completely detailed and technical issues and it was completely beyond the responsibility of the court, because if the chastity and hijab bill was reviewed in the court, those details would be unintentionally lost, in addition to the fact that the agility of a commission is definitely more than the court.
In other words, the work that is done in the courtroom in five, six months or more, can be completed in a shorter period of time in the commission. The sum of these factors, which include technical and specialized views, listening to all the criticisms, suggestions, objections, critiques and scientific research views of experts in different places, obtaining the opinion of an important part of the representatives, the work of the judiciary, the government, the parliament and the delegation of the speaker of the parliament, to He was looking for a strong and good defensible action.
Of course, because the Guardian Council wanted the Law of Chastity and Hijab to be implemented very well and not to be harmed from a legal point of view, it made the utmost care. We evaluate it rightly because it will lead to the strengthening of this law. As a result of these precisions, accompaniments and cooperations, doubts and questions are created by some who do not have a correct understanding of the legislative process, while this deficiency, that deficiencies and defects are normal in the legislative process. In other words, these ambiguities and problems that the Guardian Council constantly raises and that we are dealing with are normal.
Of course, from the very beginning, when we examined the bill on chastity and hijab, I also told you to wait and see, this bill will go to the Guardian Council, it may go back and forth several times, and there may be changes that may lead to the removal of some from the notes and articles and sometimes it leads to solving its problems and ambiguities, which are all normal cases, but due to the fact that there are social and cultural sensitivities in relation to the chastity and hijab bill, those concerns cause some issues to be magnified and seen as big. It became a subject and sometimes questions that some loved ones ask.
If, Alhamdulillah, we tried to advance a very strong and reasonable process in the way of legislation, and in my opinion, this is a very good law that is about to be finalized and come into force, and it is definitely very much related to the spread and dealing with Denial will be a deterrent, and on the other hand, the result will definitely be the peace of families and in some way create psychological security in the society.
Another point about the Chastity and Hijab bill is that we tried our best to ensure that people do not have any friction or physical contact with the police force, in other words, there is absolutely no conflict between the people and the police force in the Chastity and Hijab bill. does not have.
On the other hand, we have considered all the love and affection and cultural approaches towards our teenagers. If it is criminalized, we are seriously faced with two categories. The first part that is criminalized in the Chastity and Hijab bill is about the officials who are negligent and neglectful of the important issue of hijab, chastity and modesty and do not fulfill their duties, therefore, according to the Chastity and Hijab bill, these officials will be dealt with seriously. .
In general, according to this bill, any official in the Islamic Republic of Iran who does not fulfill his duty regarding hijab will be dealt with. The second group that will be dealt with according to the Chastity and Hijab Bill are people who rebel against the law, corruption, lawlessness and law-abiding networks that have a major contribution to the issue of hijab and chastity in the country, manufacturing factories, importers and cultural collections that are in the field of culture. They do countercultural work.
In general, the bill of chastity and hijab does not face the common people of the society. Definitely, the warnings and guidance are related to the public, the sharp edge of this law is only faced by professional criminals.
Regarding the financial fine, the conditions are as follows: first we give a warning, the next step is the text message, and the next step is the fine, and the deterrent crimes are considered. Regarding fines, it is noteworthy that financial crimes are not considered as a source of income in any way in the world, which means that financial crimes are not counted as income.
Based on this, we seriously sought in the legislative process and in the judicial and legal commission that financial crimes should not be considered as a source of income. For example, if we write very minor financial crimes for people who don’t wear seat belts in the car, this action has two meanings. The first implication is that I am not really serious about stopping you from this offense. The second meaning is that I write down the amount so that you can give. Therefore, a partial fine means both commit a violation and pay a fine! that you always commit a crime and pay money so that in the end this money will be collected and I will open an account for these crimes, but when I write a very heavy fine, it means that I have absolutely no will for anyone to commit this crime and I have absolutely no intention of receiving this fine .
In other words, a person who considers a heavy fine writes in the hope that no one will commit a violation, and if he does not commit, he has no hope that this money will be realized. Are.
We definitely have no compliments. Regarding a person who does not consider the dignity of the society, wants to break the law and avoid the law, we consider a heavy fine, we also fine him, and we take the fine from him, and if he repeats it later, there is no fine anymore because we are not looking to get money.
In other words, the first time we want to fine the violator with money, but when we see that the person is reckless, breaks the law and does not respect the law, we definitely deal with him using the language of the law and the legislator, in other words, methods and tools. There are judicial and legal deterrents that we have included here for the violators of the hijab and chastity law.
In fact, it is not the case that we allow someone to appear in the government workplace without a veil and simply consider a fine for him, because the problem of that employee who behaves in this way cannot be solved with a fine and a warning. Another deterrent, such as dismissal from the service, will be dealt with in different ways, such as the discussion of the commissions to deal with the violations that exist.
In general, if we wrote a fine in the Chastity and Hijab bill to deal with the violators, it is because it acts as a deterrent for the individual and he does not do that work, but if he repeats that work, the next steps will no longer be a matter of fines, of course these cases It is intended for ordinary people.
In general, after putting the content and text of the law in public view, people will see that this deterrence was intended to happen. Another thing is that harsher treatment will be done towards producers, distributors and even sellers. Definitely, the person who has major production and distribution has a heavier crime than the person who owns a small shop.
In addition, people who produce anti-cultural products, videos and clips and anything that promotes modesty in cyber space will definitely be dealt with. For example, the action of a teenage girl who commits bad hijab and bad clothing by mistake and doesn’t know, definitely cannot be compared to a celebrity who has maybe thousands and millions of followers in the virtual space, and we can’t compare the action of the teenage girl with the action of that celebrity, definitely. A celebrity promotes more issues and will definitely be dealt with.
In other words, celebrities and people who have advertising opportunities are definitely criminalized in the Chastity and Hijab bill, and if they do not consider this issue, it is natural that they will see the effects of the punishments of this law.
Throughout the history of the Islamic Council, all the laws that have been approved have gone through their legislative stages, and the situation has been the same in the case of the Chastity and Hijab Bill. Of course, it is possible that, for example, an issue is raised in the commission, and then some items, words, and terms are edited in the legal deputy and regulation, but this will definitely happen with the final opinion of the commission.
Therefore, it is natural that an issue is approved in the commission meeting, it is possible that a word or a sentence may be left out, a mistake may be made, or something may happen in the processes and administrative procedures. to reach a conclusion and we corrected them in any case. Currently, there is no case that we have any complaints about, or an issue has been approved that was not in our opinion or has been added or subtracted. Finally, all cases are approved by the commission.