# The Pezeshkian government does not repeal compulsory hijab enforcement

Date: 2024

## The fact

Through autumn 2024 the new government did not gazette a repeal of compulsory [hijab](/people/riad-hijab); morality-police and digital-enforcement tools continued. [Pezeshkian](/people/masoud-pezeshkian) had campaigned on easing social pressure.

## Context

The Leader’s office and judiciary own much of the file. Neighbouring Mahsa 2022 speech is earlier MP criticism. A president who does not repeal owns continued enforcement as an executive choice.

2022 MP criticism is neighbouring speech. 2026 crackdowns are later wartime interior.

The President of Iran is head of the executive, not commander-in-chief of the IRGC or the armed forces. That command sits with the Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian does not write IAEA Board resolutions, [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

## Evidence and sources

Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Human Rights Watch records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) analogues for women: completed continued compulsory hijab is a civic-mobility cost the new president did not lift.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2024 continuation of hijab enforcement without a repeal gazette, independently reported.

Not established: that he authored [Mahsa Amini](/people/mahsa-amini)’s 2022 death, or a unique later labour-force coefficient from September 2024.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Interior and judiciary continued enforcement. The Leader’s red lines sat above. Campaign easing did not become a statute.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Pezeshkian government does not repeal compulsory hijab enforcement, not a later speech about The Pezeshkian government does not repeal compulsory hijab enforcement.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Pezeshkian government does not repeal compulsory hijab enforcement on 2024-09-01 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Pezeshkian government does not repeal compulsory hijab enforcement into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He did not gazette a repeal. Interior and judiciary continued enforcement. The Leader’s red lines sat above. Campaign easing did not become a statute. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Masoud Pezeshkian: https://factrail.ai/people/masoud-pezeshkian

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/15/iran-hijab-enforcement-continues-under-pezeshkian
- https://www.president.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-hijab-2024