A detainee (left) charged with "inappropriate dress" leaves the courtive operation rounding up women who are not veiled in a "summer campaign against immodesty"..
Iranian Police have mounded a massive operation rounding up women who are not veiled in a "summer campaign against immodesty".
.The behaviour of the police has been such that even conservative Iranians including prominent politicians like Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi have protested (though the latter simply thought the methods were counterproductive).
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A total of 150,000 women were arrested in the first four days and all but a handful have signed an admission of guilt and a formal apology. 13 will stand trial and if tried could and probably will be) be flogged. An unspecified number have been given ''psychological counselling.''
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Unsurprisingly, Iranian ministers have been jumping up and down and praising both the idea and the Police operation as right and proper. 203 members of the Males (Iranian parliament) have signed a letter to General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, which praised the police and blamed the United States, Britain and Israel for inciting Iranian women to defy what they see as the Islamic dress code..
Many courageous Iranian blogers have been running the story in English, with citizen journalists taking and posting photographs and videos..
Amazingly in the UK press there has, so far at least, not been a critical comment from women's pressure groups.
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