Iran cracks down on....not drugs, not murder but...
Ah Yes even more signs of the this progressive gov't that some want us to talk to.
Quote:
Iran arrests ‘insufficiently veiled’ women
Ahmadinejad cracks down after dress code was loosened over the years
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:36 p.m. ET April 23, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran - With the arrival of spring, Iranian police have launched a crackdown against women accused of not covering up enough, arresting nearly 300 women, some for wearing too tight an overcoat or letting too much hair peek out from under their veil, authorities said Monday.
The campaign in the streets of major cities was the toughest such crackdown in nearly two decades, raising fears that hard-liner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to re-impose the tough Islamic Revolution-era constraints on women's dress that loosened in past years.
The move highlighted the new boldness among hard-liners in Ahmadinejad's government, which has used mounting Western pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program and Iraq as a pretext to put down internal dissent.
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