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Iranian Fashion Police AKA The Guidance Patrol

Written by OddCulture on July 24th, 2007 in Religion, culture, fashion, travel.

Iran Fashion Police
There oughta be a law against going out looking like that…
oh wait.. there is!

From Breitbart:

A female police officer deployed in Tehran’s latest moral crackdown tells a woman that her manto (overcoat) is too short and infringes Iranian Islamic dress rules.

“Azizam (my dear), good afternoon, if possible could we have a friendly chat, please allow us to have a small chat,” the officer, a graduate of Tehran’s police academy, tells the young woman. “My dear there is a problem with your manto. Please do not wear this kind of manto. Please wear a longer manto from now on.”

Some are just let go there, but others are escorted to waiting minibuses with dark black tinted window panes and labelled “Guidance Patrol.” A girl in a short white manto whose long hair was tumbling out the front of her headscarf is taken by the police to one of the minibuses on Vanak Square in central Tehran — an unexpected and unhappy end to her shopping trip. Another arrested woman is already inside the bus. She begins to cry. “I promise, I promise!”

Tehran fashion crackdown
Down and out in Tehran…

First, women are given a verbal warning on the street. If the problem is not resolved there, they are taken to the police station for “guidance” and to sign a vow not to repeat the offence. Should this be unsuccessful, their case is handed to the judiciary. The arrested women will now go to a “centre for combating vice”. Their parents will be phoned and they will bring a longer coat and fuller headscarf for their daughters. If the young women sign the pledge they will then be released.

Iranian Woman cop
The woman on the right, a cop, issues a warning. She reminds me of one of my scary old nun teachers from grade school who would yell and hit me with rulers.

“We want our words to have an effect on people,” a female Iranian police officer, who by law was not allowed to give her name, told AFP before being dispatched to take part in the crackdown. “Our method is through guidance and via words. We do not face an instance that prompts us to be physical. We do not have any bats or sprays, in the toughest instances we may grab her hand and ‘guide’ her to the minibus,” she said. “I am doing this it as it is my duty and my job is supported by the religious teachings,” another women clad in the black chador uniform of Tehran’s female police added.

A girl confronted by the female police for having overly short trousers and transparent stockings apologizes. “I am wearing stockings but, sorry, they are too light. Sorry I will change them, definitely I will change them. Now can I go?”

Iranian Woman
This Iranian woman’s hair is showing. Let the stoning commence!!

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