Iranian authorities have made it clear that they are determined to make the headscarf a requirement for women.
It happens following months of demonstrations calling for the prohibition to be lifted.
an absolute A member of parliament in Iran has given the judiciary 48 hours to develop methods to stop women from disobeying the laws governing headscarves.
The widespread protests that broke out in Iran in September have currently been largely put an end by force.
But some women still disobey the laws requiring them to cover their heads in public. Videos and images shared online demonstrate the pervasiveness of rage and discontent with the restrictions in Iranian society.
A video posted this week shows a man throwing a tub of yogurt in the face of an unveiled woman. His action was met with outrage by male and female bystanders.
Protests swept across the Islamic Republic following the death in September of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab “improperly”.
Thousands have been arrested and four protesters have been executed since December. But the authorities show no sign of relenting.
The interior ministry announced this week that there would be no retreat or tolerance on the issue. The statement said that the hijab remained an essential element of Islamic law and as such would remain one of the key principles of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The unyielding rhetoric echoed that of the head of the judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, who recently said that women who do not wear the head covering would be prosecuted without mercy.
Now, a hardline MP has said that legislative measures must be taken to enforce what he called the “divine decree” of the hijab.
Hossein Ali Haji Deligani said that if the judiciary did not provide such action within the next 48 hours, then MPs would put in motion a bill to fill the legal vacuum.
He said that it would be in line with a report by the parliamentary cultural commission on “chastity and the hijab”.
The protests widened to encompass calls for a complete overhaul of the Islamic Republic – but it remained rooted in the issue of the hijab.
The image of Mahsa Amini has remained the most potent symbol of the movement, which for a while was able to shake the foundations of the theocracy that has ruled Iran for more than 40 years.