Iran police toughen controls on women without hijab
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Police in Iran announced a new crackdown Saturday on women who ignore the country's strict Islamic dress code that makes it compulsory for them to wear headscarves in public."From today the police in Tehran, as in other provinces, will implement their measures against this sort of violation of the law regarding hijab," the capital's police chief AbbasAli Mohammadian said on live television.Local media reported that police in the city had launched a campaign codenamed "Noor", the Persian word for...

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