TEHERAN (AFP) – Iranian security forces arrested 10 people who clashed with police in Teheran after they arrested a woman deemed to be badly veiled as part of a moral crackdown, a deputy police chief said on Friday.<\/p>\n
“A sister was warned over her dress but she resisted. She refused to cooperate while being transferred to the patrol car and made a scene,” the ISNA news agency quoted Commander Hossein Zolfaghari as saying.<\/p>\n
“Some people were affected by the noise and clashed with the police and were eventually arrested,” he said.<\/p>\n
Nine people as well as the woman in question had been detained, he said, without giving further details.<\/p>\n
Zolfaghari was commenting on an incident in the busy Sadeghieh square in western Tehran, ISNA said, which according to unofficial reports took place on February 23.<\/p>\n
“Even if the police’s actions had been not merited that girl should not have resisted,” he said. “If an official warns a driver about going through a red light should he get out and grab the official by the neck?”<\/p>\n
Thousands of women have been warned over insufficient covering of hair and bodily contours in Iran, which launched a nationwide moral crackdown in April 2007 in a drive to “elevate security in society.”<\/p>\n
Unlike similar campaigns in the past – which wound down at the end of summer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0080\u009dvans of the moral police are still a common sight in Tehran’s main squares as officials monitoring passing women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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