WATCH: Iranian who led crackdown on anti-hijab protesters caught on video with daughter in 'revealing' wedding dress

 October 20, 2025

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Iran's Shariah agenda, specifically the Islamic law and government's demand for "modesty" in women's attire, has taken a huge hit because of online videos.

They show Ali Shamkhani, "one of the Islamic Republic's top enforcers" of clothing for women that covers them up, parading around at his daughter's wedding, and she is wearing a very revealing strapless gown with a plunging neckline.

So is Shamklhani's wife, according to the reports.

A journalist's report said, "The daughter of Ali Shamkhani one of the Islamic Republic's top enforcers had a lavish wedding in a strapless dress. Meanwhile, women in Iran are beaten for showing their hair and young people can't afford to marry. This video made millions of Iranian furious. Because they enforce 'Islamic values' with, bullets , batons and prisons on everyone but themselves. … The same regime that killed #MahsaAmini for showing a bit of her hair, jails women for singing, whose hired 80,000 'morality police' to drag girls into vans, throws itself a luxury party. This isn't hypocrisy, it's the system. They preach 'modesty' while their own daughters parade in designer dresses."

Another commenter said, "He employs morality police and imprisons any woman who does not wear a veil in Iran. One rule for him and one rule for everyone else in Iran."

The Daily Mail reported, "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."

Iranian social media, the report said, was "accusing Shamkhani of hypocrisy, considering the mandatory hijab and modesty laws that have restricted women's dress for decades."

Shamkhani was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, which is responsible for the regime's national security, between 2013 and 2023.

He held that position, the report said, "when the government organized 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 report said, "The wedding of Shamkhani's daughter was reportedly held in April 2024 and attended by members of Iran's political elite."

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