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AI enabling Iran’s crackdown on women as authoritarian regime uses tech to enforce head covering | AI has become 'the cherry on the sundae of Iran’s digital repression,' says analyst

Iran is using a host of AI tools to find and arrest regime critics. NGOs and others worry the mullahs' other target is women who fail to wear the hijab.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital the Iranian regime"is moving into the AI realm to benefit even more from technology that links together the disparate elements of facial recognition, CCTV, cell phone analysis, traffic geolocation and internet monitoring," which "bolster its cyber crackdown on street protesters or women who don’t wear their hijab correctly." Enhanced AI tools will be a key facet of the forthcoming Hijab and Chastity Bill, approved by the Iranian Parliament in September 2023 and awaiting ratification from the regime’s Guardian Council. Article 30 of the Hijab and Chastity Bill states police will "create and strengthen intelligent systems for identifying perpetrators of illegal behavior using tools such as fixed and mobile cameras," Iran International reported.

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