Kamangir (Archer)

Bad, but not that much!

Kamangir | July 16, 2007 | Category Iran

It is no mystery that the Islamic Republic is pushing harder and harder for imposing their understanding of the decent way of clothing, and behavior. Having said that, the mainstream Iranian clothing does not include Burka. That is the female outfit in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and some other too religious/traditional places on earth, but, thanks God, not in Iran.

An AFP piece published by Yahoo! News, with the title “Iran to intensify drive against unIslamic dress”, uses an image of two Burka-wearing women passing by a wedding-dress store. The caption of that picture reads “Women in Burkas walk past a clothes shop. Iran warned that its police will enforce a…”. Everything, including the style of the women’s cloths, proves that that picture has not been taken in Iran. I think someone has gone too far.

Having said that, the Islamic Republic police did hold an exhibition of what they have confiscated in their war against immodesty. The captured articles included jeans and tight blouses (see more pictures in ISNA). The Police is also diligently pursuing their program for arresting urban low-level gang members (see more pictures in FARS, did you notice the Calvin Klein underwear in the third image?). Furthermore, Tehran chief of Police talked about the new phase of the “Social Security Procedure”. “In this phase, boys with hairstyles which are copied from pervert Western groups will be targeted. These models distract the public security”, he added. This sentence is the best translation I can make of his sentence. $50 for anyone who can crack the code and tell us what he really means by it.