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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – Iran has
deployed squads of women-only vice police in a new crackdown on “un-Islamic”
dress.
Eight women were arrested in the northern
province of Gilan as part
of a new clamp-down on “social corruption”, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on
Sunday.
“The women were arrested for disrespecting Islamic virtues and for having
repulsive and immoral attire”, the hard-line daily added.
The daily added that women police officers in patrols belonging to the
Directorate to Fight Social Corruption were roaming the streets to find women
violating the stringent dress code and ‘to fight public displays of
corruption and mal-veiling”.
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