Viral video: Furious Iranian mother with no hijab confronts cleric who ‘secretly’ filmed her in hospital

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, March 14

A viral video showing an angry Iranian mother confronting a cleric who allegedly took her pictures secretly as she was not wearing a hijab has gone viral.

She says she fears for her safety.

The Iranian judiciary has initiated legal proceedings following the circulation of the video depicting the tense encounter.

The incident occurred at a hospital in the Iranian city of Qom, where the woman without a scarf was there for her child’s treatment.

The cleric was seen recording her with his phone, prompting the woman’s furious demand that the video be deleted.

In the video, the angry mother can be seen shouting at the cleric for taking photographs of her  without the hijab while she was waiting with her child in a clinic.

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