(April 28) -- Suntanned women are defying Islamic values and will be arrested, an Iranian police chief said, according to The Telegraph.
Just days after an Iranian cleric declared that scantily clad women were to blame for an increase in earthquakes around the world, Tehran police chief Brigadier Hossein Sajedinia promised to move "firmly and swiftly" to round up and arrest women with that sun-kissed glow.
"The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehavior by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values," he said Tuesday. "We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them."
An Iranian police chief said women in Iran with suntans will be arrested for defying Islamic values. Under Iranian law, women must be covered from head to toe. In the country's more cosmopolitan capital, however, some women take pleasure in flouting that law, or at least pushing its limits.
"In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins," Sajedinia said.
But Iran's ongoing war on the freedom of women may backfire, at least outside Iran.
Earlier this week, for example, when Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi said "women who do not dress modestly" cause seismic activity, his comments only seemed to embolden the forces of debauchery.
Jennifer McCreight, an American college student in Indiana, organized an international "Boobquake" to test the cleric's theory by showing some skin. On the Boobquake Facebook page, about 200,000 women pledged to wear their most revealing tops at the same time to see if they could heat up the Richter scale. The event inspired a range of tank tops (but not long-sleeved shirts). "Did the Earth move for you?" one read.
At Canada's National Post, Althea Manasan speculated about the backlash Iran's latest anti-vice edict might let loose. "It will be interesting to see whether there are any moves to protest this latest decree," she wrote. "Maybe an international Wear Your Bikini to Work Day?"
Just days after an Iranian cleric declared that scantily clad women were to blame for an increase in earthquakes around the world, Tehran police chief Brigadier Hossein Sajedinia promised to move "firmly and swiftly" to round up and arrest women with that sun-kissed glow.
"The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehavior by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values," he said Tuesday. "We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them."
An Iranian police chief said women in Iran with suntans will be arrested for defying Islamic values. Under Iranian law, women must be covered from head to toe. In the country's more cosmopolitan capital, however, some women take pleasure in flouting that law, or at least pushing its limits.
"In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins," Sajedinia said.
But Iran's ongoing war on the freedom of women may backfire, at least outside Iran.
Earlier this week, for example, when Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi said "women who do not dress modestly" cause seismic activity, his comments only seemed to embolden the forces of debauchery.
Jennifer McCreight, an American college student in Indiana, organized an international "Boobquake" to test the cleric's theory by showing some skin. On the Boobquake Facebook page, about 200,000 women pledged to wear their most revealing tops at the same time to see if they could heat up the Richter scale. The event inspired a range of tank tops (but not long-sleeved shirts). "Did the Earth move for you?" one read.
At Canada's National Post, Althea Manasan speculated about the backlash Iran's latest anti-vice edict might let loose. "It will be interesting to see whether there are any moves to protest this latest decree," she wrote. "Maybe an international Wear Your Bikini to Work Day?"
