The Mehr news agency reports that Ali-Mohammad Gholiha said: “From now on, female commuters can address their religious concerns to female seminarians stationed in Metro stations.”
He said this new program follows the success of an earlier one that saw male seminarians take to the Tehran Metro stations to deal with travelers’ religious needs.
Gholiha reports that 80 male seminarians were assigned to 30 Metro stations during the month of Ramadan in a plan referred to as a “spiritual breeze.”
Hojatoleslam Mehdi Mus-avi, an aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader, announced that he had organized the plan to address the long-neglected recommendation of the Leader that clerics be given a greater presence in Iranian life to protect a vulnerable society.
He added that the Spiritual Breeze was aimed at the “soft war being waged by foreign media through satellite programming, the Internet and other channels.”