Iran police spell out 'vice list'

A list of ‘vices’ including make-up, un-Islamic dress and decadent movies, has been published by Iranian police as part of an ongoing moral crackdown.

The list appeared in conservative newspaper Jomhuri Eslami as part of a police drive launched in April, AFP reported.

Police have since raided underground parties, seized satellite dishes and conducted street checks on the improperly dressed.

Between April and October police warned 122,000 people, mostly women, about flouting dress codes, of which almost 7,000 attended classes on respecting the rules. Women have been warned for wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.

“Wearing boots with short pants, wearing hats or headscarves which do not fully cover hair and neck instead of the proper head veil and putting on unusual make-up that contradicts public chastity (is forbidden)” according to the list.

Also forbidden is “wearing Western-style clothes and insignias of deviant groups”, and “production and distribution of decadent movies as well as private home-made videos”.
The country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged police last week to keep up efforts, AFP said, saying they must “fulfil their duties regardless of some opposition and propaganda”.