injerusalem. remember, earlier this week, israeli police raided the mosque after palestinians barricaded themselves inside, after the evening ramadan prayer. that led to palestinian militants firing rockets into israel from lebanon and gaza, and israel hitting back with airstrikes. the al aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in islam, is located on a hilltop complex known by muslims as al haram al sharif, and byjews as the temple mount. jews revere it as the location of two biblical temples and it is the holiest site injudaism. thousands of muslims and jews are gathering injerusalem with ramadan and passover overlapping this year. earlier, tens of thousands of people protesting against the israeli government s plans to gain more control over the judiciary, held a minute s silence for the victims of a wave of recent attacks on civilians. two british israeli sisters who were killed in a shooting in the occupied west bank yesterday have been named as maia and rina dee. their moth
Iran's authorities declare large fines, revocation of driver's licenses and passports, and no entry to the Tehran metro for women who are not wearing hijab.
Iran's authorities declare large fines, revocation of driver's licenses and passports, and no entry to the Tehran metro for women who are not wearing hijab.
in terms of taking the hijab off and appearing in public without the hijab. but one other thing that the police is also doing is they re fining and closing down businesses that cater to women who don t have the hijab, so they re using this policy of people against people, citizens against citizens, to control women. so i think that, if anything, that might have a more significant impact on how women appear in public. and we saw an incident, as well, caught on tv of that yoghurt attack, so to speak. we remember back in december when iranian officials had announced that they were disbanding what they call the morality police, the actual people on the streets that were enforcing some of these dress codes. does it seem now that they potentially have been replaced instead by this new security camera system? yes, they ve never officially announced that they are disbanding the morality police.