News Center -while the government continues to lack effective policies to address the issue. In this climate, several Iranian parliamentarians
have reintroduced the controversial “Chastity and Hijab” bill-this time under the guise of a new legislative package titled “Preventing Violence Against Women.”

According to Iranian media reports on Monday, October 13, a number of conservative lawmakers are seeking to incorporate key provisions from the previously suspended hijab law into this new “anti-violence” bill. Observers see this as a strategic. move to reimpose restrictions on women’s freedoms that were previously frozen by the Supreme National Security Council.

Media sources say that after hardline MPs failed to revive the Chastity and Hijab law in its original form, they shifted.
tactics—embedding their ideas within a new framework ostensibly designed to protect women. The revised draft reportedly includes phrases such as
“prioritizing a dignified life for men” alongside new rules governing women’s dress, signaling an attempt to reassert old controls through softer language.

Earlier this year, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government withdrew the bill from parliament after the Vice President.
for Women and Family Affairs, Zahra Behrouz Azar, stated that the draft had been fundamentally altered in committee discussions, to the point that even
its title no longer reflected its initial purpose.

This latest effort to rebrand restrictive measures as “protections” for women comes amid a broader pattern of legal and societal.
crackdowns that continue to erode women’s rights in Iran.