Iranian hardliners form "chastity patrols"
Chastity patrols," created by an Iranian paramilitary group to force women to go "well covered" in public, are the latest ploy by the country's hardliners to counter what they see as laxity in the government of moderate President Hassan Rohani. At the beginning of summer, trendy Iranian women started wearing lighter clothes, more transparent veils to cover their hair and slightly shortened sleeves that still end below the elbow. That tendency prompted the more conservative sectors to demand imposition of "good hijab" in accordance with a ...
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