Iran: Another repressive move against women, their cars can now be impounded

Women drivers in Tehran may see their vehicles impounded by police if they are caught driving with a poorly fixed veil or without their heads covered, Agence France Press reported citing a police chief on Wednesday, September 2nd.
“If a (female) driver in a car is poorly veiled or has taken her veil off, the vehicle will be seized in accordance with the law,” the head of Tehran’s traffic police, General Teymour Hosseini, was quoted as saying by the official ISNA news agency.
He added that any woman who had her car seized would need to obtain a court order before getting it back.
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, wearing a veil in public has been mandatory for all women in Iran.
“Unfortunately, some streets of the capital have come to resemble fashion salons,” Iran’s judiciary chief mullah Sadegh Larijani said this week, questioning the “tolerance” that has led to “such a situation”.