If the regular rules of family are broken, it would result in many complicated and grave consequences for all of the society. Since Khatami was not the hard-line mullahs' favored candidate for presidency, his election has created factions within the Iranian government. A power struggle has ensued, but this is not an ideological fight between those loyal to religious fundamentalists and proponents of secular democracy. Women's public clothing continues to obsess the mullahs. In the last year, the Martyr Ghodusi Judicial Center, a main branch of the judiciary, issued a stricter hejab, or dress code.
Women continue to be arrested for improper veiling.
In November, an Agence France Presse correspondent in Tehran witnessed approximately ten young women being arrested and placed into a patrol car for improper veiling or wearing clothing that did not conform to Islamic regulations. The women were wearing colorful headscarves and light makeup. In late July, the Tehran police arrested a number of young women who failed to conform to the strict dress code. Most of the women were wearing makeup or in the company of young males who were not related to them. Under fundamentalist's interpretation of Islamic texts, women are banned from being judges because they are not considered capable of making important decisions.