Government losing control over veiling, says Khamenei adviser
Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, also a member of the Iranian Parliament, believes that the government needs a united front to address the issue of veiling and recommended subsidies for factories that produce veils.
An Iranian member of parliament has said that partisan politics is costing the government the power to implement a coherent policy on veiling. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, who is also an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and related to him through marriage, appeared on the popular television program “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” and spent considerable time discussing veiling in Iran.
“One of our problems in our struggle with veiling is that we do not make a united statement,” Haddad-Adel said. “One person says cultural work must be done, another says we have to confront this issue with organized institutions. These multiple statements and seasonal actions have ruined the work. The power of the establishment is lost through such actions.”
![Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri (C) and his Lebanese counterpart Nbih Berri (L) review the presidential guard at Beirut's international airport February 5. Nouri is visiting Lebanon to discuss bilateral relations. [Tehran supports the Islamic Hizbollah (party of God) and its militias in their bid to oust Israel from the occupation zone in south Lebanon]. - RTXIKOL](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/06/RTXIKOL.jpg/RTXIKOL.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=c1S1f5W_)
