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"TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian police have arrested eight people in a new crackdown targeting "un-Islamic acts" online such as female models posting images of themselves without their hair covered, state media reported Monday, part of a larger cultural struggle in the Islamic Republic over the country's future.
The arrests follow the detentions of artists, poets, journalists and activists as moderate President Hassan Rouhani's administration secured a landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
The arrests and harsh sentences handed down signal that hard-liners in the police and judiciary, who were unable to stop the accord and fear looser social norms will weaken the Islamic Republic, still hold significant power in the country.
Meanwhile, journalists, filmmakers, writers and activists also have been detained, sentenced or imprisoned."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-cracks-down-on-female-models-posing-without-headscarves-online/ar-BBt7MxV?li=BBnb7Kz
This kind of stuff just pisses me off. Oppressors just gotta oppress I suppose.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)bighart
(1,565 posts)Not sure what you mean here.
I find the oppression by these hardline fundies sad. Holding on to power seems to be all they are concerned with.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Already somebody blaming the west for this. Same as it ever was.
bighart
(1,565 posts)I just got really pissed when I read the article.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I was just letting you know. Most people in the other thread are putting the blame where it belongs - on the mullahs. But some just have to blame the west because we're responsible for all the evil in the world.
Bucky
(54,106 posts)bighart
(1,565 posts)Bucky
(54,106 posts)According to google image search, you can still see the color of their hair, even if you build a wall around their scalps
pnwmom
(109,028 posts)even among women in the most fundamentalist families.
Bucky
(54,106 posts)They should be covered more. That one on the right is committing the sin of filling my eyes with lust.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)The apologists make me sick.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)pnwmom
(109,028 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)And that has what to do with Iran, and your expectation that anyone is riding out to defend Iran?
pnwmom
(109,028 posts)are being forced -- but by family members rather than the government.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)There are no legal requirements to wear anything on the head in the US.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)I just read that on DU yesterday.