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Iran's so-called 'morality police' have intensified their enforcement of the country's draconian hijab restrictions in several cities over the past week.
A number of videos have shown the officials stalking the streets looking for women in breach of the Islamic Republic's dress code laws, and in one clip are seen grappling with a woman before bundling her into the back of a white van.
The crackdown on women across Iran follows Tehran announcing the 'Nour Project', according to the Jerusalem Post, which is aimed at 'dealing with anomalies.'
This has resulted in the heavy presence of the country's Guidance Patrol, aka the morality police - its Islamic police and vice squad - in several cities.
Police have been instructed to focus on 'positive behaviours' and avoid using 'negative behaviours,' according to Iran's Mehr News Agency.
However, the Jerusalem Post's report suggests that the crackdown has been violent.
Iran 's morality police have intensified their enforcement of the country's draconian hijab restrictions in several cities over the past week, with footage (pictured) emerging from the country of officers rounding up women and bundling them into white vans
Suspected morality police are seen having stern words with a woman on the street before leading her over a van - despite the fact that she appears to be wearing a hijab
It says there have been reports from the country of sexual harassment, beatings, widespread arrests, the breaking of windows and the use of tasers.
Iran's crackdown also comes just a week after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that wearing the hijab was of the 'utmost importance,' the publication says.
He also accused foreigners in the country of 'hiring' women not to wear the hijab.
At least two separate clips have emerged from Iran showing police enforcing the country's dystopian laws against women.
In one video overlooking a tree-lined street, shared on social media, a woman is seen struggling against several morality police officers wearing yellow high-vis jackets.
The woman's hair can be seen in the clip - showing that she is not wearing a hjijab - as the police grab and drag her into the back of an unmarked white van.
It appears that in addition the male police officers, a female official - fully covered in long black robes - is also involved in the arrest.
The police are then seen having stern words with another woman who appears to have taken issue with the way the morality police handled the first woman.
She also is then seen being walked over to the white van, although it is not clear from the clip whether she was also detained.
The clip was shared by Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident journalist and activist who is based in the UK.
'Brutal crackdown signals renewal of war against women in Iran,' she wrote on X.
This clip, shared by Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist, appears to show the inside of one of the vans used by the morality police to detain women
From the inside of the van this time, a woman is seen being pushed inside, where other people are waiting. Some appear to be other detainees, with one person covertly filming despite being told to put their phone away
Several of the clips were shared by Masih Alinejad (pictured), an Iranian dissident journalist and activist who is based in Britain
'Look at how the Hijab Police savagely arrest an unarmed woman simply because she hasn't covered her hair, dragging her into a police van.
'This order came after the leader of the Islamic Republic, [Khamenei], instructed the police in Iran to enforce hijab on women at any cost.'
In a second clip, this time at night, another white van is seen parked on the street.
Again, a woman is seen being put int the back of the white van by black-clad people, as a small crowd gathers around to watch.
A third clip, also shared by Ms Alinejad, appeared to show the inside of one of the vans used by the morality police.
From the inside of the van this time, a woman is seen being pushed inside, where other people are waiting. Some appear to be other detainees, with one person covertly filming despite being told to put their phone away.
'What are you pushing me?' the woman asks. She appears to be wearing a hijab.
'If you don't listen to me you will be taken to the station,' one of the officials warns.
One of the women tells them: 'I have an exam tomorrow.' Another says she also has an exam, but 'now'. 'What if I fail?' she asks. Another women is heard telling her: 'Don't shed any tears. They don't deserve our tears.
'They say they will let us go' one says. 'No they won't,' another replies.
'This is what the inside of a morality police van looks like, where they kidnap women for not wearing the hijab,' Alinejad wrote on X along with the video.
'These days in Iran, the Islamic Republic is using the cover of tensions with
