Overview
- The clip shows senior adviser Ali Shamkhani escorting his daughter, identified as Fatemeh or Setayesh, into Tehran’s Espinas Palace Hotel wearing a strapless, low‑cut gown at a luxury wedding reportedly held in April or May 2024.
- The footage went viral after being posted on X on October 17, with exiled activist Masih Alinejad and others condemning what they called elite hypocrisy as ordinary Iranians face strict hijab enforcement and economic strain.
- Iran-focused outlets and officials debated the event’s propriety, with some defenders describing it as a private, female‑only gathering and state‑linked Tasnim urging that officials’ lifestyles be defensible even as it criticized publishing private video.
- Domestic media coverage intensified, including a Shargh front page and online calls for resignation or explanation, yet there has been no public resignation or formal sanction reported against Shamkhani.
- The uproar coincides with reports that Tehran plans a major build‑out of morality‑police enforcement—reportedly 80,000 officers—linking the leak to wider anger over dress‑code crackdowns since the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests.