Shocking moment female 'morality police' officer attacks screaming teenager and forces her to the ground for refusing to cover her hair - before crowd 'saves her' in Iran

This is the shocking moment a suspected female morality police officer attacked a screaming teenager and forced her to the ground.

It was reported that the teenager was accosted by the officer for refusing to cover her hair, thus breaching Iran's strict laws governing what women can wear.

Footage of the incident was captured in what appears to be a busy public park in Iran - reportedly Borujerd - and shared to social media.

The clip begins with a group of people crowded together next to a tree and a low brick wall, as bystanders watch on.

Screaming is heard coming from a person in the middle of the group, and it is clear that some of the people are struggling against each other.

This is the shocking moment a suspected female morality police officer attacked a screaming teenager and forced her to the ground

Footage of the incident was captured in what appears to be a busy public park in Iran - reportedly Borujerd - and shared to social media. The teenager was pushed to the ground by the suspected morality police officer. Her fate was unclear from the footage

Suddenly, the teenager girl is seen falling backwards by the wall, with an older women - dressed in a full black hijab - landing on top of her.

The older women is said to be an officer of Iran's morality police - a group that enforces the Islamic state's strict dress code on women.

The older woman appears to be trying to get the teenager under control, but the youngster continues to scream and fight back against the attempts.

She appears to successfully kick the older women off her, who stands up, but then returns to the girl who is lying on the ground and tries to pick her off the floor.

Some of the bystanders are also seen getting involved, but by the end of the clip it remains unclear who they are trying to help - the older women or the teenager.

According to Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist who shared the footage, the person who filmed the video gave her details on the incident.

'So called Morality Police in Iran violently assaulted a teenager for not wearing a hijab in the city of Borujerd, Iran, Alinejad wrote on X along with the video.

'The citizen who filmed this incident told me that a hijab police officer attempted to brutally arrest the teenage girl for wearing a T-shirt,' she said. 'However, because she screamed for help, people gathered and saved her from the police.'

'Watch the video yourself, and you will understand why we call on you all to be #UnitedAgainstGenderApartheid.'

According to Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist who shared the footage, the person who filmed the video said the teenager was saved by onlookers

The clip is the latest in a series to show what appears to be a renewed effort by Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei to enforce his regime's draconian laws. 

Tehran last month announced the 'Nour Project', according to the Jerusalem Post , which is aimed at 'dealing with anomalies.'

This has resulted in the heavy presence of the country's Guidance Patrol, aka the morality police - the Islamic police and vice squad - in several cities.

Police have been instructed to focus on 'positive behaviours' and avoid using 'negative behaviours,' according to Iran's Mehr News Agency.

However, the Jerusalem Post's report suggests that the crackdown has been violent. 

It said there have been reports from the country of sexual harassment, beatings, widespread arrests, the breaking of windows and the use of tasers.

Iran's crackdown also comes just a week after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that wearing the hijab was of the 'utmost importance,' the publication says.

He also accused foreigners in the country of 'hiring' women not to wear the hijab.

The crackdown also comes 18 months after the death of Mahsa Amini - a 22-year-old woman who, in September 2022, died in custody after being arrested for allegedly violating the Islamic dress code.

Amini's death unleashed months of mass protests across Iran, and marked the biggest challenge to Iran's clerical leaders in decades.

This footage (pictured) emerged last month showing officers rounding up women and bundling them into white vans as part of Tehran's crackdown on women's dress

Suspected morality police are seen having stern words with a woman on the street before leading her over a van - despite the fact that she appears to be wearing a hijab

According to reports, more than 500 people were killed as the Tehran regime fought back against the protesters, who gained support from around the world. 

In March, a fact-finding mission mandated by the United Nations said the death of Ms Amini in custody of Iran's morality police was 'unlawful' and caused by violence and that women in the country remain subjected to wide-ranging discrimination. 

'Our investigation established that her death was unlawful and caused by physical violence in the custody of state authorities,' Sara Hossain, chairperson of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

She said the protests that followed were marked by 'egregious human rights violations', including extra-judicial executions, arbitrary arrests, torture and ill-treatment, as well as rape and sexual violence.

'These acts were conducted in the context of a widespread and systematic attack against women and girls, and other persons expressing support for human rights,' Hossain said.

Iran's crackdown comes just a week after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that wearing the hijab was of the 'utmost importance,' the publication says

'Some of these serious violations of human rights thus rose to the level of crimes against humanity.'

In response, Kazem Gharib Abadi, secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, accused the fact-finding mission of a 'glaring lack of independence and impartiality'.

Hossain said that since the protests, women and girls in Iran were confronted daily by discrimination 'affecting virtually all aspects of their private and public lives'.

'It is hard to fathom that in the 21st century, women's access to the most basic service and opportunities, such as schools, universities, hospitals, and courts, or to opportunities for employment in government or other sectors, should be subjected to a wholly arbitrary requirement of wearing the mandatory hijab,' she said.