Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran's judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute "without mercy" women who appear in public unveiled. 

This comes in the heels of an Interior Ministry statement that reinforced the government's mandatory hijab law.

In public statements, officials of different ministries, including ministries of Education, Universities and Health, have announced that they will not provide educational and other services to girls and women who do not follow their compulsory dress code.  

Despite risking arrest for defying the obligatory dress code, women in Iran are widely seen unveiled  in public around the country. 

Just in the last week, in many cities in Iran, numerous shops, restaurants, even pharmacies and doctors' offices were forced to shut down and many women were banned from entering different establishments because of refusing to follow regime's anti women mandatory dress code policy.