Azerbaijan, Baku, April 27 / Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
Iran's special police unit has started annual campaign to uphold Islamic dress code in country, Tehran's police chief General Hossein Sajedi Niya said, Mehr reported.
The Chief also said that the police will also go after the clothing manufactures and importers, because of which, revealing clothers are being brought into the country. According to Niya's words, if the companies will not comply with police's order, they will be forced to close down.
Last year Iran's morality police unit commenced its annual campaign last month to uphold the Islamic dress code and raise "moral security" in the streets of Tehran, leading to many arrests and fines.
Local media published pictures of police men and women belonging to the "chastity squads" who detained for questioning women who were not wearing their traditional hijab headscarf properly.
Some women were arrested and taken to police stations across the city until they could post bail. Every year thousands of citizens, and especially woman and adolescents, are arrested during similar campaigns.
Ever since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came into power in 2005, police have intensified enforcement against men, women, clothing shops and barber shops which go against the regime's Islamic code.
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