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Iranian leader who led hijab crackdown slammed after daughter’s 'strapless' wedding dress goes viral: 'Display of hypocrisy'

A video showing the daughter of a senior aide to Iran's Supreme Leader wearing a strapless dress at a wedding in Tehran has stirred a major row. Critics are accusing the regime of hypocrisy over its strict hijab laws.

The footage was reportedly leaked on X on October 17, according to Daily Mail. The video shows Ali Shamkhani, a top ranking advisor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, escorting his daughter Fatemeh into the Espinas Palace Hotel. Guests can be seen cheering as the bride walks in wearing a white strapless gown with a low neckline

The Western-style ceremony has been condemned on Iranian social media as a contrast to the modesty and hijab rules that ordinary women are forced to follow. Shamkhani, who once led the government’s harsh crackdown on anti-hijab protests, is now being accused of hypocrisy.

'Lavish wedding in a strapless dress'

“The daughter of Ali Shamkhani, one of the Islamic Republic’s top enforcers, had a lavish wedding in a strapless dress. Meanwhile, women in Iran are beaten for showing their hair and young people can’t afford to marry,” wrote exiled activist Masih Alinejad on X.

“They preach ‘modesty’ while their own daughters parade in designer dresses. The message couldn’t be clearer: the rules are for you, not for them," they added.

'She is free because her father has power'

Swedish-Iranian MP Alireza Akhondi also criticised the display, calling it “a display of hypocrisy, corruption, and fear.” He added, “The daughter of one of the most corrupt and repressive officials of the Islamic Republic is getting married in a lavish celebration, dressed freely. She is free because her father has power. This is no longer religion.”

New hijab rules?

Reports by Iran International claimed the wedding took place in April 2024, with several members of Iran’s political elite in attendance. The backlash comes as authorities prepare to deploy 80,000 new morality police officers in Tehran to enforce hijab rules.

Who is Ali Shamkhani?

Shamkhani, 70, is a long-time ally of Khamenei and served as defence minister and senior military commander before leading the Supreme National Security Council from 2013 to 2023. During his tenure, the regime launched a violent crackdown on protests that erupted following the 2022 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being detained for allegedly violating hijab rules.

According to Human Rights Watch, more than 500 people, including 68 children, were killed during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, with over 20,000 arrested. A UN fact-finding mission later found that the Iranian government had committed “extensive, sustained and continuing” human rights violations against women and girls.

Shamkhani had previously survived an Israeli air strike on his Tehran residence in June.

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Religion is for the poor.

Same hypocrisy HISBAH is doing in Nigeria. Ajimobi daughter wedded in such a wedding gown in Kano while HISBAH never even coughed.

The laws are always enacted to target the poor. The rich always get away with the law while they continually use religion to subjugate and oppress the downtrodden masses. Religion is truly the opium of the masses.

The hijab is invisible...a special kind of hijab

That wedding gown won't even pass anywhere in Nigeria on a normal day

I mean, that's way too low for an Iran of all countries

There is nothing new because those people are the definition of hypocrisy. They always do the opposite of what they enforce, so people should not be surprised, and the rest of their population ought to know better

The same way the wife of Saudi Arabia Prince move round everywhere in Europe without the lie called Hijab
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Islamic laws are for the poor.

@Ditari of Ijaw.

Hijab is for poor Muslim women.

Hijab is for Olodo people

Islamic laws are for the poor

So many women in Iran have either been excommunicated, exiled, jailed and sentenced to death because of this.

If you don't entrust your brain to others gullibly, it can't be used anyhow.
Religion isn't the problem but those who practice and teaches it. 80% of what is written inside the Bible and Quran is not what the religious leaders teaches, they specifically look for chapters and verses that only favour them and their hypocrisy when the need arises.

OriOko88:
Hijab is for poor Muslim women.

The same goes for shariah

LagosOrigin:
Islamic laws are for the poor

Of course bro, of course.

Why do men allow their wives wear skimpy wedding dresses on their wedding day and expose their boobs?

SmartPolician:
Why do men allow their wives wear skimpy wedding dresses on their wedding day and expose their boobs?

Because all men are not you.

One Man's Food is Another Man's Poison.

Now, without writing enough epistle on NL your write up can't be post.


Now I get work ohh not like before.

laws are only meant for the poor and powerless.

Religion always, has been a Tool for control

Nigerian Iranians will come out to defend her.

Nigerian palestinians are more palestinians than the people of Gaza
Nigerian Iranians are more Iranian than the people of Iran
Nigerian Hamas are more Hamas than Hamas
Nigerian mxsxlxms are more mxsxlxms than Saudi Arabians

Is our God not a miracle working God?

The most hypocritical religion..... y'all can see it right here

You can wear strapless dresses on occasions but not casually,that’s my defense.

Just like deeper life church. The lady don enter western world

Kikiki. The rule is for the poor, bro!

Racoon:
Same hypocrisy HISBAH is doing in Nigeria. Ajimobi daughter wedded in such a wedding gown in Kano while HISBAH never even coughed.

The laws are always enacted to target the poor. The rich always get away with the law while they continually use religion to subjugate and oppress the downtrodden masses. Religion is truly the opium of the masses.

Ajimobi of Oyo State moved his daughter's wedding to Kano state?
Abi ẹ̀yin IPOB NL branch ti ń ya wèrè ni?

But the poor love being oppressed. Isn't it the poor who still fight each other and also fight for their oppressors, who care nothing about them?

Physicans heal themselves. Laws are meant for commoners. George Orwell captured this in 1984. Awon to sunmo alijunah, ti won jina sina losi ara le. Owe nu e fa la si.

Laws are mostly and only meant for the poor and average.


Still, the poor and average are still not rational enough to see that they are being enslaved.

Orlandoo:
Religion is for the poor.

The problem with your comment is that it implies that

1. Poor people are inherently good. Rich people and powerful people are all evil.

2. Non religious people are also.inherently good. Religious people are evil

Both assumptions are false.

Hypocrisy is what is the problem here, not religion or lack thereof.