Morality police issue ‘badly veiled’ warnings to 62,000 women
It feels good to catch a little breeze in summertime
Iranian police have issued warnings to 62,000 women who were “badly veiled” in the Shiite holy province of Qom as part of a crackdown on dress and behaviour.
Colonel Mehdi Khorasani, the provincial police chief, said police had also confiscated around 100 cars for carrying improperly dressed women and said that “encouraging such relaxations are among the objectives of the enemy.”
The population of Qom is more than one million, with most of them concentrated in the city itself which is Shiite Iran’s clerical nerve-centre.
By law, women in the Islamic republic must be covered from head to foot, with their hair completely veiled and social interaction is banned between men and women who are not related.
Iran is known particularly for summertime crackdowns on improperly dressed women but the issue has sparked debate after the hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he “firmly” opposed the crackdown…
His remarks have drawn the wrath of fellow hardliners and several top clerics who have criticised him for opposing the police crackdown…
Meanwhile, like any theocracy, individual sects and their ideological pimps leaders joust to assume the mantle of living prophet.
