The following video was recorded in the waiting room of a clinic in the Iranian city of Qom. When a Muslim cleric started to record a cell phone video (or take a photo) of a young unveiled woman who was there with her baby. When the woman saw what he was doing, she reacted with fierce anger, and demanded that he turn over his phone to her.

Notice that the unveiled woman receives active support from a significant number of veiled women, who join her in demanding that the cleric surrender his phone. As far as I can determine, one of them manages to snatch the phone and run off with it just before the end of the clip.

The subtitling wasn’t done by us, and the translator is unknown. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for uploading this video:

The video was posted by the Italian newspaper La Stampa. Below is a the written paragraph accompanying it, translated by Gary Fouse:

Mullah photographs woman without veil in a waiting room. She rebels and confronts him

“Show me your phone!” That’s how a woman confronted a cleric who was surprised while he was taking a photo, probably to report the fact that she was without a head covering. But the mother, at that moment in the waiting room of a clinic in Qom with her sick child, reacted forcefully and lashed out at the mullah, shouting at him to show her his phone. Other women came to calm her, but also to help her, and surrounded the man, who was filmed as he hurriedly left the clinic. It is unclear what occurred after the events recorded by the security cameras. The Iranian judiciary has stated that a case has been opened and that the incident is the object of an investigation but denied reports that the clinic was shut down or that arrests had been made.