Opinion by Pardis Mahdavi: When Iran’s morality police came for me
, ending centuries of monarchical rule. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a group of Islamic clerics arrived shortly after and immediately began to remake Iran into the antidote to “the West” and the immorality of its lifestyle. At the top of the Islamists’ target list: women wearing miniskirts or heavy makeup and any display of sexuality. Women’s bodies have always been their obsession. An assault on women’s personal freedoms has always been their goal.
The Islamic Republic is not about fun, it is about morality. There is no fun to be had in the Islamic Republic of Iran.walk the streets day and night, sometimes in pairs, often in groups of four. They can be seen wearing green uniforms or in the case of women, black cloaks from head to toe, patrolling the streets for immorality: strands of hair falling from loosened veils, couples holding hands, young people playing loud music in their cars as they talk, laugh or trade texts in traffic jams.
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