Dear Log,
«Police have also raided fashion stores and seized brightly coloured manteaus.
Tehran's police chief, Morteza Talai, said the campaign would try to clamp down on people making "the social environment insecure".
Young women shopping in north Tehran's fashionable Tajrish neighbourhood yesterday, however, were uncowed. Matin, 24, a nurse, was wearing a gaudily patterned light-blue head scarf pushed back to reveal sunglasses and bleached blond hair. Her tight, short black manteau with intricate gold patterns seemed designed to provoke the ire of the authorities. But she was unrepentant. "I'm a married woman and it should be my husband who tells me what and what not to wear. He likes the way I dress," she said.»--"Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress"
