Rustam Qasimi’s name has been circulated in Iran and on the social media accounts of thousands of opposition activists over the past few hours with the hashtag #Rustam Qasimi, Minister of Rustam Qasimi, the Minister of Roads.
In Malaysia, we embraced his girlfriend without a veil due to images of the Revolutionary Guards commander and the current Minister of Roads and Urban Development in President Ibrahim Raisi’s administration.
Even though these photos date back years, they have recently gained popularity amid the nation’s unprecedented protests, which have been going on since the middle of last month after the young woman, Muhsa Amini, died after being detained by the religious police under the pretext that she wasn’t properly covering her face.
This led a large number of Iranians to protest the “scandalous malice of power officials” in their nation.
Since Qasimi is one of the militants on the issue of the veil and a supporter of repressing the protests, others also believed that these photographs provided strong evidence that the persons who control the country’s government restrict the populace from seeing the information they analyse for them.
This occurred during ongoing nationwide protests that began on September 16 in response to the murder of Amini, a 22-year-old, in a movement that was unparalleled since 2019 and in which thousands of enraged young people from all social groups took part.
These women’s demonstrations to demand respect for their rights—including the freedom to express their opinions, to choose their own attire, and to live their own lives in light of the strict laws that have been in place for decades in the nation—were also supported by university and school students.
Since the 1979 revolution, this was one of the most audacious tests for the authorities and the powerful clergy.
However, as a number of human rights organisations revealed, hundreds of protestors were killed by the security forces during their brutal confrontation with them, and thousands more were detained around Iran.
Images of an Iranian minister caused a scandal to break out; a friend without a niqab is an incubator.
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