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Iranian Police Arrest 32 "Half-Naked" Partygoers
Iranian police said Saturday that they had arrested 32 university students at a party in Karaj, outside Tehran, for drinking alcohol and "being half-naked," the ISNA news agency reported. The Tehran province security police chief Nader Sarkari said that the raid followed a tip-off and that the students were celebrating after one of them had won a medal in an international competition. Iran is experiencing one of its tightest moral crackdowns in years. The campaign has already seen thousands of women warned by police for wearing un-Islamic garb. Last week in the city of Karaj, 230 were arrested at an illegal rock concert last week when 230 were detained, and some two months ago, police arrested 20 young people at a party, also in Karaj. Mixed-sex parties are illegal in Iran, as is public or private consumption of alcohol and attending gatherings with improperly clad members of the opposite sex. Dancing to Western music is frowned upon as well. Police commissioner Esmaeel Ahmadi Moghaddam said that the moral crackdown – called a drive to "elevate security in society" – would continue because it had proved popular with the public. Source: Alarabiya.net, November 4, 2007
Posted at: 2007-11-05
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