The head of the Assembly of Experts said that in addition to cultural issues, the society has to be controlled to counter improper veiling.

“People cannot walk in any way they like on the streets. When they are asked why they are walking [with this] indecent [appearance] on the street, they say, ‘because I want to’. Well, I would like to slap you in the face, but I cannot”, Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani said in a program aired on the first network on the Sima [state-run TV].

“We can not only advise someone who is contaminating Tehran’s water with a bacteria not to do this. If someone is contaminating the water, what can be done? You say that we should advise [him\her] against doing that? Advising someone will not bear any results. The water will become polluted and it will be bad for the people”, this influential cleric said. (Khabar Online state-run website – Aug. 26, 2011)