Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in
the street while on his way to the mosque in the town of
Shahmirzad, and asked her to cover herself up, to which she
replied “you, cover your eyes,” according to Mehr. The cleric
repeated his warning, which he said prompted her to insult and
push him. “I fell on my back on the floor,” Beheshti said in the
report. “I don’t know what happened after that, all I could
feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and
attacking me.”