NCRI – Deputy Chief, Colonel Mohsen Khancherli for the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – in Tehran said in an interview with the state-run news agency Fars on Saturday, "We have expanded our operations to increase security in the parks during the summer season."
Khancherli said, "With summer on its way, security in the parks takes precedence for the police. The Police stations have been instructed to man all the parks." es/2008/repression/women/iran-woman-protes NCRI – Deputy Chief, Colonel Mohsen Khancherli for the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – in Tehran said in an interview with the state-run news agency Fars on Saturday, "We have expanded our operations to increase security in the parks during the summer season."
Khancherli said, "With summer on its way, security in the parks takes precedence for the police. The Police stations have been instructed to man all the parks."
"Presently there are 40 major parks which we have stationed our SSF officers. However, local stations have the responsibility of stationing their own forces in the parks as well."
Regarding the women only parks, he said, "We will have at least 10 women only units stationed in the parks in addition to two men police units stationed outside of the parks."
Since the enforcement of the so-called boosting "public security plan" in April of 2007, hundreds of thousands of women have been stopped on the streets across Iran for receiving warnings for what they wore. Out of that, many have been arrested and sent to jails for being second time offenders.