Iran: Hard-Liners Crack Down on Models Not Wearing Head Scarves

Originaly posted in New York Times

TEHRAN — Iran’s judiciary unleashed one of its periodic crackdowns on social media permissiveness on Sunday, announcing the arrest of eight people involved in online modeling without a mandatory head scarf and questioning another woman, a former model, live on state television on Sunday.

A blogger, Mehdi Abutorabi, 53, who managed a publishing tool called Persian Blog, was also detained, the semiofficial student news agency ISNA reported Monday.

The former model, Elham Arab, 26, had been something of an Instagram star, posting pictures of herself in bridal gowns with eye-catching, dyed-blond hair. But on Sunday, months after her Instagram account had been shut down, she wore a pious black scarf and matching gloves as she was questioned by two prosecutors during a live television program.

Iran: Regime is arresting women posing without headscarves online

Iran regime arrests women with loose hijab

Iranian police have arrested eight people in a new crackdown on women who post images of themselves online without their hair covered, state media reported Monday, part of a larger cultural struggle in the Islamic Republic over the country's future.
The arrests are part of a wider crackdown on artists, poets, journalists, bloggers and activists.
The arrests and harsh sentences handed down signal that hard-liners in the police and judiciary, who were unable to stop the accord and fear looser social norms will weaken their power on the public.

Actor Leonardo Di Caprio shows his concern for dryness of the lake Oroomieh in Iran

 Celebrity Leonardo Di Caprio, the famous movie star and an environment activist has shown his concern for dryness of the lake Oroomieh in Iran. He wrote in his  Instagram,” Lake Oroomieh once was the largest salt lake in the Middle East and the sixth largest salt lake in the whole world , but now unfortunately only %5 of its water is remained.

Iran: Warning! 5 million educated unemployed Iranians

 

More and more young men becoming unemployed in Iran

Reza Rahmani, chair of the Iranian Parliament Industrial Commission said, “All industrial ministries must get to work because the unemployment alarm has been sounded, because in addition to the other unemployed people, we now have more than 5 million educated unemployed people across the country.”

Speaking on Saturday night in the regime’s Chamber of Commerce session in the city of Tabriz (northwest Iran), Rahmani said Iran is now 117^th in the world in employment.

Iran: mullahs’ operatives damage national-cultural heritages

                                           Scenes of the damaged Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue 

Bakhtiary Iranians in the city of Ahvaz, southwest Iran, staged a demonstration on Monday, May 16^th, protesting the damaging of national heritages and symbols of the Constitutional Revolution period [early 1900s] by operatives loyal to the mullahs’ regime and supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Following the damages inflicted to the statue of Ass’ad Bakhtiary, a legend of the Constitutional Revolution who conquered Tehran, by the gangs and hoodlums of the mullahs’ regime in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiary Province, the Bakhtiary Iranian community held a demonstration protesting these measures that are considered an insult to Iran’s culture and history. Video footages of the damages inflicted on the Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue has been posted on the Internet, showing the police being present at the scene yet taking no action to prevent this hideous measures.

Iran: Women workers suffering under mullahs’ rule

Today’s world has witnessed significant developments and changes regarding women’s status and conditions in various aspects of our society. The increasing number of educated women, evolving knowledge and levels of learning have rendered a mounting demand for women’s presence in the job market. This development can be the source of widespread social and cultural changes. In Iran, however, it is an entirely different story.

Iran: Labor Children، a Devastating Social Reality

We invite you to a brief glance at the atrocious conditions of Iranian children forced to quit school and work. This is the true face of the mullahs’ rule in Iran. 

Iran state TV, 12 June 2015:

At least 15,000 labor children are roaming the streets of Tehran

Child: I am a street vendor

Reporter: Where?

Child: Tehran’s Tajrish region

Another child: I sell omens

Reporter: How old are you?

Child: 8

Reporter: How much do you earn?