Tehran, 26 April (AKI) - Some 150,000 women have been detained in Iran for violating strict new Islamic dress code rules, the country's top police officer has announced. "During the first four days [since the code came into effect] we have picked up 150,000 women who were not properly veiled, but many of them were released after they signed an admission of guilt and a formal apology," General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam told journalists. An unspecified number of the women taken into custody were also forced to undergo psychological counseling, Moghaddam said.“Only 13 of these women are still being held and they will have to stand trial," he explained.
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Some prominent politicians have criticised the government and the security forces for the way the matter has been handled. “Certain methods produce undesired results," said Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. “Dragging women and girls to police stations for having some hair out of place, not only won't serve to bring morality to the country, but will have very negative effects on it," he added.
Justice minister Gholam Hossein Elham has apparently tried to minimise the incident by blaming the poice for being over zealous in enforcing the dress code. “The government issued no specific orders on how to carry out the campaign," he said.
| Thus leaving it up to the hard boyz to decide. I think I see the root core issue here. |
Blame the US, blame the Jews for our property's uncovered hair.
| My fault. The harlots listened to me. |
Beat them into submission
Radical Islamist deputy, Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabai, said that “those who do not respect the dress code and who refuse to wear the hijab have no place in an Islam country and should leave."
That's right, not just Iran, but any Islamic country. The option of "Love your hijab or leave the country", of course, is ayatollan humor.
Culture and Islamic Orientation minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi, for his part defined the police operation as “a holy deed" and
Promising Islamic revolution throughout the world isn't enough for these clowns - now they've opened hostilities against half of the country's population.