Sharia crackdown in Iran. From the Telegraph, via the Washington Times, :
LONDON — Police in Iran’s capital, Tehran, have stopped almost 64,000 women and warned them against breaching strict Muslim dress codes in the last month alone.
The authorities have chosen the height of summer for a new crackdown to ensure that women cover their heads with veils and their bodies with long, heavy overcoats whenever they are in public.
For years, Iran’s police turned a blind eye when young women pushed the boundaries of the rules by wearing the flimsiest of veils or displaying painted toenails in open sandals.
But President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s deeply conservative regime is steadily reversing this trend.
Police in Tehran have been given orders to caution any woman they deem to be “badly veiled.” Thousands are being stopped every day.