Iran targets e-commerce giant over photos of female employees without headscarves in new crackdown

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DUBAI: Iranian authorities have shut down one of the offices of the country's biggest e-commerce company and launched judicial procedures after it published pictures online showing female employees not wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf, semi-official media reported..

The move appears to be part of a new campaign launched last week to impose the Islamic dress code nearly a year after the morality police largely melted away in the face of widespread protests...

Digikala, informally known as "Iran's Amazon," appears to have run afoul of the rules by posting pictures of a corporate gathering in which several female employees were not wearing the hijab...

The protests, in which women played a leading role, quickly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran's theocracy, which took power after the 1979 revolution..

After the protests began, the morality police largely vanished from the streets and many women - particularly in Tehran and other cities - stopped wearing the hijab...

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