IranWire has heard that in order to steer secondary schoolgirls away from the anti-government protest movement that has swept the nation for more than five months, mandatory sessions using pornographic videos have been held.

According to sources with knowledge of the situation, security forces went to girls’ schools in the Bandar Mahshahr city in the southwest to mistreat the kids and breach their right to a secure and respectful studying environment.

There have been skirmishes between teachers and security personnel as a result of girls from all across the nation joining the rallies advocating for greater freedoms and women’s rights. Several people who were believed to have participated in protests were beaten and put into custody.

IranWire learned in October that female students at the Shahid Reihane-ul-Nabi school in Bandar Mahshahr had congregated and were chanting anti-Islamic Republic chants in the school’s courtyard.

Shortly after, a cleric visited the school and assembled kids in grades 10, 11, and 12 in a classroom. The cleric was accompanied by a lady wearing a headscarf and men in uniform and non-uniform clothing.

In an effort to persuade the kids that the demands of the demonstrators will result in sexual decadence in Iran, the visitors made them watch videos depicting pornographic situations, including rapes and sexual encounters between humans and animals.

According to current information, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the paramilitary Basij force may have recently carried out similar activities in girls’ schools in Tehran’s 4th and 5th districts.

A Shahid Reihane-ul-Nabi Girls’ High School student’s relative described an incident that happened on November 21.

A source said, “The Mahshahr Revolutionary Guards Corps member Hossein Rezaei visited the school with an unknown woman and intimidated the pupils who were protesting.” They added, “The visitors randomly or intentionally selected around 60 students from three different grades for counselling and threats.”

One of the schoolgirls claimed that the incident took place following some student protests.

These protesting students were then expelled from school for three days. The school authorities brought this group of uniformed forces to threaten us and prevent us from participating in protests,” the girl said.

“They tried to change our opinions about protesting and even threatened to report us to security agencies if we chanted slogans.”

According to a source, a student had a nervous breakdown and needed to spend two days in the hospital.

Out of almost 400 students, just 50 schoolgirls attended class the next day. Parents from at least three girls’ high schools in Tehran’s 4th and 5th districts have reportedly stated that male operatives in plainclothes have visited the schools to present sexually explicit movies, according to journalist and educational specialist Nejat Bahrami.

Families have threatened to pull their daughters out of the school and have complained to the principal and the General Directorate of Education of Theran. The Department of Education threatened to report the families of the pupils as well as the students themselves to the police.

In another incident, authorities in Iran are on a hunt for 5 women who performed without a hijab.

According to reports, Iranian security officials have started looking for five females who appeared in a dance video that went viral online this week in Ekbatan Town, west of Tehran, which has been the scene of anti-government demonstrations.

Police were looking for the teenagers as of late on March 9, according to the local news-focused Shahrak Ekbatan Twitter account.

“In order to locate the girls who were merely dancing and not engaged in any political action, they searched CCTV footage of Block 13 for them. Officers were seen reviewing the video and interrogating the security personnel “It read.

Also, according to Shahrak Ekbatan, the Instagram page where the dance video was initially posted has been shut down.

The five girls dance to the song Calm Down by Rema and Selena Gomez in their 40-second short, which was released on March 8 to coincide with International Women’s Day. In the background are two grey buildings.

The dancers’ “act of resistance” towards the Islamic Republic has been praised in comments on social media sites where the video has gone viral.

Iranian women and girls are forced to cover their heads and are not allowed to dance in public.

But, following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, in the care of morality police in September 2022, more and more women and girls have been openly flouting the laws set by the Islamic Republic. For reportedly donning a headscarf unlawfully, Amini had been taken into custody.

According to rights organisations, the Iranian government responded to the women-led rallies with a savage crackdown that resulted in the deaths of more than 520 individuals and the unlawful detention of more than 19,000 people, including many women. The judiciary has sentenced demonstrators to harsh punishments, including the death penalty, following unfair trials.

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