Iran vows crackdown on 'inappropriately' dressed women
Iran's judiciary is to launch a fresh clampdown on women it deems are inappropriately dressed and "spreading prostitution," the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.
Iranian women walk on the beach in their clothes in Kish island
"The ones who spread prostitution and intentionally seek to disturb social and moral security by inappropriate clothing and behaviour will be firmly confronted," Tehran's hardline prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi said.
"It has been noticed that some people with an outrageous appearance in public hurt religious feelings and beliefs," he said, adding the crackdown would start on March 6 and continue for a month.
Mortazavi said the crackdown would also target what he described as "street women who get into cars as passengers and rob or extort the drivers."
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