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Iran launches anti-vice crackdown
Iranian newspapers have printed a list of moral vices that will get residents in trouble with police as a fashion crackdown becomes more serious in the Islamic country.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:19 November 13, 2007
Tehran: Iranian newspapers have printed a list of moral vices that will get residents in trouble with police as a fashion crackdown becomes more serious in the Islamic country.
The list includes wearing makeup and hats instead of headscarves and boots instead of full-length trousers, the E'temad newspaper reported.
Police have warned of serious sanctions against women who will wear "un-Islamic outfits", such as short trousers or skimpy overcoats and small headscarves.
In the last six months, thousands of women have been warned or arrested for wearing outfits that authorities deem a violation of public morality.
Last week, Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei urged police to tighten the crackdown on social vices.
Iranian moral vices
- Terrorising people by quarrelling and feuding in public
- Wearing short trousers revealing the leg
- Wearing scarves that do not cover up the head
- Wearing unconventional make-up
- Wearing decadent Western clothes
- Displaying signs and insignia of deviant groups
- Procuring decadent films
- Procuring drugs and alcohol
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