Morality police adopt a more root-and-branch approach in battle against females who show too much hair or makeup.
The Guardian UK
With spring coming and temperatures rising, Iranians can expect the time-honoured crackdown on “inappropriately dressed women”. Like every year, Iran‘s morality police will bundle women who show too much hair or wear too much makeup into minivans, exposing them to a few hours of boredom at the local police station. For a country with the second highest spending on makeup per capita in the world, the process is the Iranian version of shovelling snow while it’s still snowing.
Perhaps this is why this year they have decided to take a more root-and-branch approach: teaching hijab and chastity to toddlers.
Although Islam doesn’t call for girls to be veiled until they are nine, the governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamadon, recently stressed the importance of “popularising” chastity and hijab among Iranians. He recommended “starting in kindergartens before reaching those in higher education”.
“We cannot expect to see hijab and chastity exist in society without proper cultural work,” he said. “Our goal in the social transformation plan devised by the government is institutionalising chastity and hijab as a natural [demand] in society.”