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Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress this week and several hundred arrested in the capital Tehran in the most fierce crackdown on what's known as "bad hijab" for more than a decade.
It is the talk of the town. The latest police crackdown on Islamic dress has angered many Iranians - male, female, young and old.

But Iranian TV has reported that an opinion poll conducted in Tehran found 86% of people were in favour of the crackdown - a statistic that is surprising given the strength of feeling against this move.

Police cars are stationed outside major shopping centres in Tehran.

They are stopping pedestrians and even cars - warning female drivers not show any hair - and impounding the vehicles and arresting the women if they argue back.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Yeah, that does suck. It's beginning to sound like Saudi Arabia.

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Always look upstream.

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Originally posted by rue:
There you go again. Since you can't make your point hang on for any length of time you just have to derail the discussion.

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What role are you playing, Khyron?

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Originally posted by rue:
There you go again. Since you can't make your point hang on for any length of time you just have to derail the discussion.

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Originally posted by rue:
Geezer: thesis
"Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress ..." (Iran = bad fanatical country that deserves US hate.)

SignyM: discussion
"It's beginning to sound like Saudi Arabia." (Look here, there are other bad fanatical countries the US likes !")

Geezer: distraction
"We got enough nukes to go around ... and the nuclear winter would solve global warming." (Look - over there ! An unrelated joke ! Pay no attention to my lame-ass thesis !)

What role are you playing, Khyron?

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Originally posted by Malbadinlatin:
This probably sounds sarcastic, but I am in every way sincere when I ask: Are there some rules writ down in here somewhere about what we can and can't say? Or maybe some form of etiquete beyond the "be civil" message?

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