Posted on 10/24/2025 5:27:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
An advisor to Iran's Ayatollah who helped organise a crackdown on anti-hijab protestors has sparked outcry in Iran after letting his daughter marry in a 'revealing' dress.
Footage circulating on social media shows Ali Shamkhani, a top advisor to Iran's supreme leader and a member of the Expediency Council, escorting his daughter, Fatemeh, into a wedding hall at Tehran’s luxury Espinas Palace Hotel.
The bride wore a strapless white dress with a low neckline and entered the grand room to cheers and music.
The Western-style wedding sparked anger on Iranian social media, with many accusing Shamkhani of hypocrisy, considering the mandatory hijab and modesty laws that have restricted women's dress for decades.
Shamkhani, a long-time ally of Ali Khamenei, previously served as the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the body responsible for the regime's national security, between 2013 and 2023.
He was in the position when the government organised a brutal crackdown on the protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, who died in police custody in 2022 after being arrested for allegedly violating rules requiring women to wear the headscarf.
The footage of his daughter's wedding, purportedly leaked on X on October 17, comes amid reports that the country plans to introduce 80,000 new morality police officers in Tehran to enforce women's compliance with Islamic dress codes, according to independent TV network Iran International.
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She looks like a hooker pretending to be a bride.
Turn her in to the morality police.
Not guilty. Off with her head!!
I guess hypococrites exist in all colors/sizes/shapes - the bride looks like any Western bride - very pretty and beautiful dress. I bet she had some rousing arguments with her father about what he thought was appropriate for a Persian wedding...she won!!!
Rules for thee, but not for me!......................
Huh ...
The lady is very pretty ... the dress isn’t particularly modest, but I have seen far sluttier garb being passed off as a wedding-dress.
Not guilty!
“ She looks like a hooker pretending to be a bride.”
Yep. She looks like every American bride I’ve seen in the past 20 years
Correct. Normal in USA.
From what I've seen. It's a normal dress.
There is actually a small counter trend of modest wedding dresses in the US. Our future daughter in law has actually found a few with long sleeves and modest neck and back styling. Some of the sweet 1970s Gunne Sax maxi-dress vibes are making a comeback.
I loved Gunne Sax dresses!
Me too!
She’s also guilty of cultural appropriation by using a Spanish mantilla which is heavily associated with the Catholic Church. I think her father is going to disappear soon.
Say yes to the dress.
Off with their heads.
Her dress does not fit.
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