NCRI – Iranian regime's traffic police chief said the drivers in Iran found guilty of violating traffic laws could be sentenced to 74 lashes or several months in jail, official new agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.

Brig. Mohammad Rouyanian said, “violators will be referred to court for disrupting public order and the court can sentence them from three months to a year in jail or 74 lashes."

"Starting on May 4,…the violators’ vehicles will also be seized for a week and they will be referred to the court," he said.

The Iranian regime has long been using degrading, cruel and inhuman punishments such as flogging for even petty crimes. But this is the first time that it is officially announced such punishments for traffic violations.

Since the start of the new Iranian year on March 21, the mullahs’ regime has threatened the public with new repressive measures such as harsher crackdown on "mal-veiling" in private companies and small businesses, announcing the formation of new Security Patrols, enforcing the public security plan, in a new phase.

On April 13, the greater Tehran’s State Security Force (SSF) chief, Brig. Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan in an interview with state-run television, promised more suppressive measures for next year compared with those enforced during the previous Iranian year.

"Enforcement of public security and morality concerning improper clothing, hooligans and thugs, petty drug dealers and thieves as well as security in parks, and all matters related to the people’s state of mind will continue to be pursued strongly in the new Iranian year, 1387. You must have witnessed the [unacceptable] behavior of some motorcyclists on the streets and the concerns of car drivers.  One other area that we will take into consideration, besides the public security, would be social discipline…," added Radan.

The photo is showing a 25-year-old man receiving a public flogging on August 2007, in Qazvin, 160 kilometers northwest of the capital Tehran.