President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab is the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yogurt at two women in a store near the holy Shiite Muslim city.

A growing number of women are defying authorities by throwing off the veil following nationwide protests that followed the death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the vice police on charges of violating the hijab rules. security forces brutally suppress insurrection.

Judicial authorities in a town near the northeastern city of Mashhad have issued an arrest warrant for a man who poured yogurt on the heads of two women, a mother and her daughter. They were also issued arrest warrants for violating Iran’s strict rules on women’s clothing, state media reported.

At the risk of being arrested for violating the mandatory dress code, women are still often seen naked in malls, restaurants, stores and on the streets across the country. Videos of naked women resisting the vice police have flooded social media.

Live on state television, Raisi said, “If some people say they don’t believe (in the hijab)… it’s good to use persuasion… But the important thing is that there is a legal requirement… and the hijab is a legal issue today.”

Authorities said the dairy store owner who encountered the attacker had been warned. Social media posts showed that his shop was closed, although he was quoted by a local news agency as saying that he was allowed to reopen and that he should “give explanations” to the court.

According to Iranian media reports, the head of the judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, had previously threatened to “mercilessly” prosecute women who appear in public without clothes.

“Revealing the information is tantamount to hostility to (our) values,” Edjei was quoted as saying by several news sites.

Under Islamic Sharia law adopted in Iran after the 1979 revolution, women are required to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothing to hide their figure. Violators faced a public reprimand, fines or arrest.

Describing the veil as “one of the civilizational foundations of the Iranian nation” and “one of the practical principles of the Islamic Republic,” a statement from the Interior Ministry on Thursday said there would be “no retreat or tolerance” on the issue.

He urged citizens to stand up to naked women. Such directives have in recent decades encouraged hardliners to attack women with impunity.

Senator John Fetterman was discharged Friday from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where the Pennsylvania Democrat had been treated for severe depression in the neuropsychiatric ward for the past month and a half.

Fetterman is back home in Braddock, Pennsylvania and will be spending a two-week Easter/Easter vacation in his area. He plans to return to the Senate in the week of April 17th.

“I am so happy to be at home. I am happy to be the father and husband I want to be, and the Pennsylvania Senator deserves it,” Fetterman said in a statement. “The Pennsylvanians have always had my back and I will always have theirs.”

Fetterman’s depression is in remission, according to David Williamson, chief neuropsychiatrist and medical director Walter Reed, who led the team responsible for his treatment.

The senator registered with Walter Reed on February 15. According to notes from Williamson’s briefing shared by Fetterman’s office, he arrived with severe symptoms of depression, including low energy and motivation, poor speech, poor sleep, slow thinking, and slow movements and feelings. guilt and worthlessness.

7 March 1884 newly appointed prefect Eugene Poubel decreed that every tenement house in Paris must be supplied to the tenants by covered containers, soon to be aptly named pubelle (garbage bins)—collect their waste. Prior to this, everything from animal and human feces to food waste and hospital waste was dumped straight onto the streets. The stinking black goo that covered the pavement could destroy the fabric. Surprisingly (at least by our modern hygienic standards), Poubel’s decree was met with explosive hostility: press campaigns, open letters, cartoons, slander and satirical songs fell upon Pubel and his pubelle.

Today, almost exactly 139 years later, Parisians are desperate for just the opposite. After a three-week strike of garbage collectors, when more than 10 tons of garbage have accumulated throughout the city, they are very eager to get their own. pubelle and it works again.

The mass accumulation of rubbish in the French capital is one of the most visible and stinking manifestations of the equally massive opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed pension reform in France, against which millions of people have been demonstrating every week since January. Even after the Macron government used a constitutional provision to push through reform without a formal parliamentary vote, the streets are still heaving.

Workers in schools, universities, public transport, railroads, aviation, oil refineries, gas and electricity, and even nuclear plants went on strike. But press coverage and international coverage are focused on piles of black bags blocking entire sidewalks in the City of Light. If the images are admirable Emily in Paris fans and sensational front-page photos, the reality on the ground is politically explosive. France, far from the glossy “startup nation” image that Macron tried to sell, is stuck in a rut, as is his administration.

IIn a country prone to intense politicization, observers, activists and citizens quickly began to argue: what really “stinks” – pension reform or garbage? For many, the proposed bill, which would push back the statutory retirement age for full pensions from 62 to 64, should be rejected in the first place. In accordance with March 9, 2023 Ifop surveyA permanent 73 percent of active workers remained against the bill two months after the disruption. (The bill must be approved by the Constitutional Court, and even then the government may change its mind, though most people don’t think so.)

Within a few weeks, Parisians had learned to quickly navigate the towering piles of knick-knacks and rubbish. Taking out the garbage in the absence of any garbage collection service has become an existential and political issue. Strike supporters theatrically add their bags to the monumental piles of boxes and crates stacked on the pavement to keep the flames of the uprising alive; environmentalists leave trash at home and lament the overconsumer society we live in; homeowners’ associations contract private collectors to clean their 20-foot street; the concierge in my house demands that the army take everything; and almost everyone blames the notoriously hated mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, whether she tries to clean up parts of Paris or refuses to do so in support of the strikers.