How lovely.

Via INN:

Masih Alinejad, a Britain-based journalist who initiated a popular Facebook protest against Iran’s strict dress code, denies Iranian allegations that she was sexually assaulted, or that alternatively, she is “a whore.”

“Masih Alinejad is a whore, and not a heretic as some people claim her to be,” wrote Vahid Yaminpour, an influential conservative Iranian commentator and TV personality, according to IranWire. “We shouldn’t elevate her to the level of a heretic. She’s just trying to compensate her psychological (and probably financial) needs by recruiting young women and sharing her notoriety with younger women who are still not prostitutes.”

IranWire further reported that Yaminpour’s comments in his Google Plus (which is banned in Iran) came two days after Iranian state television aired a report claiming that Alinejad, founder of the “My Stealthy Freedom” social media campaign against mandatory veiling, had been assaulted and raped in London in the presence of her son.

The broadcast described Alinejad as a “nexus of sedition” over her campaign, which has garnered over 430,000 likes on Facebook. Hundreds of Iranian women from inside the country have posted pictures of themselves sans headscarves, in a popular protest.