Iran Islamic misogyny

Tehran no longer to arrest women for breaching ‘Islamic values’, just herd them into reeducation centers…….


 

Who are they trying to fool? Useful stooges in the West.

 

“Based on a society-oriented, educational approach, the police will not arrest those who don’t respect Islamic values,” Gen. Rahimi said, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. “It will instead educate them.”

 

Tehran Police to End Arrests for Breaching ‘Islamic Values’

Police chief in Iranian capital promises education instead of detention for those breaking morality rules

 

Authorities in Tehran will no longer arrest people for breaches of Islamic codes, the Iranian capital’s police chief said Wednesday, a sign of easing social strictures under relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani.

 

Echoing a similar shift in Saudi Arabia, Iran’s main regional rival, Brig. Gen. Hossein Rahimi said police would change tactics in enforcing Islamic values, after decades of fines, detentions and even lashings for infractions as minor as women wearing nail polish, heavy makeup or tying their headscarves too loosely. Iranian women have been obliged to wear headscarves in public since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which melded government with Islam.

 

“Based on a society-oriented, educational approach, the police will not arrest those who don’t respect Islamic values,” Gen. Rahimi said, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. “It will instead educate them.”

 

The announcement appeared to mark a significant change in how police in Tehran address Islamic mores. But given the long and harsh history of enforcement, many Iranians responded on social media with skepticism and demands for a more precise definition of the Islamic values that won’t result in arrests. “They’re probably short of detention cells,” one Iranian tweeted.

 

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