IRAN’S brutal morality police left a young mum-of-two paralysed after they shot her for not wearing a hijab – sparking outrage.
Arezoo Badri, 31, was driving home with her sister when cops mercilessly gunned her down.
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The horrific incident – which happened on July 22 in the northern city of Nur – left Arezoo with life-changing injuries.
Iranian police claim their officers were entitled to shoot as it is illegal in Iran for women to drive without wearing the hijab.
Brutal cops have been cracking down on anyone flouting the rules using CCTV cameras to identify them.
Local sources say that any car in which a woman is driving while not wearing the hijab is liable to confiscation.
It is understood that when police spotted Arezoo, they tried to make her stop and when she did not immediately comply, they opened fire.
Colonel Ahmed Amini – head of the police in Nur – told Iran’s state-run news agency that officers were entitled to shoot because the driver had not complied with in order to stop.
He added that the use of firearms was allowed under Iranian law.
Three weeks earlier, Iran elected a new president, Masoud Pezeshkian – reportedly a moderate but apparently not prepared to go against Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The fresh crackdown enforcing the dress code for women resulted in a confiscation order to be placed against the car of Arezoo.
According to reports this was after she was filmed travelling with women whose hair was uncovered.
The shooting follows prolonged public protests over the death of Mahsa Amini who was killed in 2022 while being questioned by Iran’s morality police also breaching the country’s hijab rules.
Arezoo was hospitalised in Nur and later transferred to a hospital in the provincial capital Sari for surgery.
Sources say she was taken to the capital Tehran where she is in intensive care surrounded by security officials.
The bullet she was hit with remained inside the body for almost two weeks before it was removed and has left her completely paralysed from the waist down.
It comes as in May Iranian morality cops tackled a girl to the ground and attacked her as she screamed.
The teenage girl was reportedly cornered by an officer for refusing to cover her hair, violating Iran’s strict dress code laws for women.
Heartbreaking footage shows the girl lying on the ground in a busy public park in Iran during the attack.
Iran’s morality police
UNDER Iranian law, rooted in Sharia law, women must cover their hair with a hijab and wear long, loose-fitting clothing.
The Guidance Patrol – aka the morality police – are in charge of arresting women who violate the conservative dress code.
Tasked with ensuring Islamic morals are respected, they spend their days patrolling public spaces in vans to crack down on “improper” behaviour and clothing.
Women detained by cops are either given a warning or bundled into a van and whisked away to a “correctional facility” or a police station.
They are then lectured on how to dress before being released to their male relatives.
Since the 1980s, many women have been beaten to death by the callous morality police, or tortured into given false confessions.
At first a group of people can be made out around a brick wall as screaming pours out from behind them.
Soon a girl wearing a t-shirt with her hair exposed in a ponytail can be seen writhing on the floor.
An older woman wearing full hijab is leaning down over her, forcing the teen onto the ground.
She is reportedly part of Iran’s twisted morality police force, who brutally enforce the Islamic state’s strict dress rules for women.
The girl appears to kick the woman as she scrambles around on the ground.
But the older woman simply walks around the crowd and tries to drag her up off the floor again.
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