Iran’s former security chief, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, is facing backlash after a video showed his daughter in a revealing wedding gown.
Many Iranians accused him of hypocrisy over the country’s strict hijab laws.
Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s former national security chief and one of the country’s top enforcers of the hijab law, is facing public criticism after a video of his daughter’s wedding went viral, showing her in a revealing gown.
The footage, which resurfaced online over the weekend, shows Shamkhani’s daughter, Fatemeh Setayesh, wearing a strapless wedding dress with a plunging neckline and a sheer veil that left her hair visible, an outfit that openly violates the same modesty rules her father has spent years enforcing.
The lavish ceremony, reportedly held at Tehran’s five-star Espinas Palace Hotel last year, also featured Shamkhani’s wife in a backless lace gown, along with several female guests seen without hijabs.
Shamkhani, a close adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has long been associated with the regime’s hardline stance against women defying mandatory hijab laws.
The clip has got people in Iran talking and expressing frustration, with many calling the display hypocritical. Critics accused the country’s elite of imposing repressive rules on ordinary citizens while privately ignoring them, pointing to the incident as another example of the government’s double standards.
