Overview
- The widely shared clip shows Shamkhani escorting his daughter in a strapless gown at Tehran’s Espinas Palace Hotel during a 2024 ceremony.
- Exiled activist Masih Alinejad posted the footage on X, fueling online condemnation of hypocrisy in dress-code enforcement.
- Shamkhani responded defiantly, posting “I’m still alive” on X, including in Hebrew, and suggested the leak was an act of enemy revenge.
- State-linked figures criticized the ethics of publishing a private video and some argued the event was a female-only gathering, while Tasnim urged officials’ lifestyles be “defensible.”
- The controversy lands as reports describe a planned expansion of morality police in Tehran and follows Shamkhani’s past role in the 2022 protest crackdown, with no resignation or official sanction reported.