“According to police, they were guilty of wearing “shameful and immoral dress in public,” not in accordance with the Islamic code, which was put in place by Ayatollah Khomeini in the beginning of 1981. He ordered covering all the parts of the body except the face and wrists.” Khomeini didn’t originate that. It comes from the hadith that has Aisha recount Muhammad’s saying to a woman: “‘O Asma’, when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it does not suit her that she displays her parts of body except this and this,’ and he pointed to her face and hands.” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4092)
“Iranian police arrested 50 women for ‘un-Islamic’ dress,” by Hagai Lap, Jerusalem Post, January 1, 2015:
Morality police arrested a number of women for immodest dress in Tehran last week, according to reports from the Islamic Republic.
Officers reportedly confronted and arrested a big group of women walking near Vanak square, in an affluent area of the Iranian capital’s northern region.
According to police, they were guilty of wearing “shameful and immoral dress in public,” not in accordance with the Islamic code, which was put in place by Ayatollah Khomeini in the beginning of 1981. He ordered covering all the parts of the body except the face and wrists.
Some of the women’s husbands tried to stop the arrests, to no avail, running to clothing stores to buy their wives more suitable attire.
The women were detained for several hours and then were forced to sign a statement not to repeat their actions and to follow the Islamic and Iranian culture traditions….