Posted on 04/26/2007 1:18:39 AM PDT by Cornpone
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.
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.
However, 203 legislators in Iran's Majlis parliament in a letter addressed to Moghaddam, expressed their support for the way police acted.
In the letter, the legislators blame the United States and Israel for "inciting" Iranian women not to respect the Islamic dress code, including the shrouding of the head with the hijab scarf.
The Speaker of the Majlis, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, described the new 'moralising2 campaign which includes a strict application of the dress code as an "admirable act" and he urged women to “believe strongly in the hijab”.
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."
Culture and Islamic Orientation minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi, for his part defined the police operation as “a holy deed" and lambasted newspapers and other media that had criticised the campaign.
“It is unacceptable that some have shown dissatisfaction with the police's behaviour and have placed obstacles against the campaign. Newspaper who create problems for the police will not be tolerated for much longer, and action will soon be taken against them," Harandi warned.
Thank G-d for idiots like these as opponents.
Perhaps this will cause the young people to ultimately act against the regime in Iran.
Ape Boy doesn’t have much friends among young Iranians or Women. Most of these guys have a satellite dish behind a curtain on their balkonies - they see what it’s like in other countries and what we think of their unshaved leader.
I guess there’s a slight chance this problem handles itself.
Calling Sean Penn. What were you telling us about how Iran is a ‘Great’ country? See if you can get your wife to move there with you.
Yes, send Pelosi to show them how a woman should
dress in a veil to be submissive.
...waiting for the great Iranian revolt? ...waiting until after Iran has nukes?
I doubt it, yound adults are supposedly the most gung-ho on Sharia law out of all the groups.
Mullahs Gone Wild. Can’t wait to see the video.
It's already been done in Afghanistan...it ends up with the woman on her knees with a gun to the back of her head in a stadium.
Come on Persians, regain your culture and toss your Islamic enslavers over the cliff!
Never understood why single men (not married with families) don’t rise up and slaughter some of the “leaders”. You can get to anybody if determined enough.
For several years I've participated on a message board that is an outreach ministry to muslims (board run by ex-muslims). I've had quite a few discussions/debates/etc with muslim seekers as well as muslim apologists seeking to chase those seekers back to Islam. Much of the muslim world functions at several levels, but Islam is a core piece at each level. That is to say, it's at a religious level, a social level, a cultural level and they also function in clans where one is pretty much screwed if they break away from their familial/clan group and they lose that connection of they break one of the other levels. Independent actions require one being willing to be an outcast from one's family and run a real risk of being killed.
Newspaper who create problems for the police will not be tolerated for much longer, and action will soon be taken against them,”
More repression, another mistake.
Interesting observation. Thanks for your work.
Thanks...It's great to see God moving in the lives of people who have to hang it all out there. It seems to go in waves...been pretty slow lately. A couple of times the board was hacked and trashed and it took some time to get it back up...and there is the occasional death threat. But it's easy to count it all joy for His sake.
It's already been done in Afghanistan...it ends up with the woman on her knees with a gun to the back of her head in a stadium.
Not in Iran.
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