Posted on 08/28/2006 6:47:48 PM PDT by blam
Teheran police order 64,000 women to cover up in the heat of summer
By David Blair
(Filed: 29/08/2006)
Police in Iran's capital, Teheran, have stopped almost 64,000 women and warned them against breaching strict Muslim dress codes in the last month alone.
The authorities have chosen the height of summer for a new crackdown to ensure that women cover their heads with veils and their bodies with long, heavy overcoats whenever they can be seen in public.
For years, Iran's police turned a blind eye when young women pushed the boundaries of the rules by wearing the flimsiest of veils, or displaying painted toenails in open sandals. But President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's deeply conservative regime is steadily reversing this trend.
Police in Teheran have been given orders to caution any woman they deem to be "badly veiled". Thousands are being stopped every day.
Mohammad Reza Alipour, from the capital's police force, said that 63,963 women had been given a warning in the last month, with some making a "written pledge to dress properly".
Observers say that Mr Ahmadinejad has ordered the new, hardline approach.
"We are certainly seeing a return to behaviour we haven't seen for 10 years," said Hadi Ghaemi, the Iran researcher for Human Rights Watch.
"Generally, the imposition of strict Islamic codes has been increasing under Ahmadinejad." The fate of women who police decide are "badly veiled" depends on the whims of the officers concerned. They may be released with a caution, or taken to a police station and bailed. Those with political connections are usually treated leniently. Others may be detained. "The person could end up in jail depending on their relationship with the authorities," said Mr Ghaemi.
The authorities have also begun confiscating satellite dishes from private apartment blocks, enforcing a ban which was largely ignored for years.
give it time, the Iranian people will rise up against these morons....
the young ones are becoming westernized and you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube.
Oh, that wacky little Ahmadinejad...
What a sad religion.
Amnesty International is outraged at the US for causing this deplorable situation no doubt.
Bush's fault.
Wooo... this'll make breathing very difficult...
I am so thankful to be an American.
Well, here we go again. When is he going to put them all in burqa's?
Thugs.
But it's a dry heat.
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Unfortunately, they don't have enough initiative or guts to take on their leadership.
Arab+Speedo= Match Made in Hell
These freaks have a great big mental problem, and probably a physical problem, a shortfall in the genes, as it were. Must be so, for them to be so creepy. And so cruel. Gish. Dress police. Girlish men who blame their desire to hold power over women on their religion. Bullpatuddie. What a bunch of creeps.
LOL...
They can't kill them all...even some of the less lunatic-al muzzie dudes would start objecting to the offing of their squeezes....don't you think??
I personally am glad that the muzzie lunatics are pressing down on the "flock" for it will just hasten the day that islm is thrown on the trash heap of history along with gengis kahn, hitler and stalin.
Islm has to be destroyed from within, for it is clear that the west ain't got the balls to destroy it from the outside by taking out the mullas...the mullas' replacements...the replacements of the replacments....and so on.
Islam will kill itself, but I won't mind helping along it's demise.
Time for bra burning in tehran.
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