No wonder Nancy PELosi loves going to Iran to talk to these Mysoginists and
woman hating people.
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> TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iranian police have warned barbers against
> offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their
> male customers, Iranian media said Sunday.
>
> The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news
> agency, appeared to be another sign of authorities cracking down on
> clothing and other fashion deemed to be against Islamic values.
>
> "Western hairstyles ... have been banned," the newspaper Etemad said
> in a front-page headline.
>
> It came a week after police launched a crackdown against the growing
> number of young women testing the limits of the law with shorter,
> brighter and skimpier clothing ahead of the summer months.
>
> Under Iran's Islamic Sharia law, imposed after the 1979 revolution,
> women are obligated to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting
> clothes to disguise their figures.
>
> Violators can receive lashes, fines and imprisonment.
>
> The student news agency ISNA quoted a police statement as saying: "In
> an official order to barbershops, they have been warned to avoid using
> Western hair styles and doing men's eyebrows."
>
> Iranian young men have in recent years started paying more attention
> to the way they look and dress, especially in affluent parts of the
> capital Tehran. Spiked up hair, by using gel, is known as the Khorusi
> (Rooster) style and some also use make-up.
>
> Several hairdressers for men in Tehran offer cuts in the style of
> Hollywood movie stars and other Western celebrities. Clients can also
> have their eyebrows plucked.
>
> The head of the barbers' union, Mohammad Eftekharifard, said police
> had instructed it to "exercise specific regulations in barbershops
> that work under its supervision."
>
> Barbers who do not follow these rules might be closed down for a month
> and even lose their permits to operate, Etemad quoted him as saying.
>
> "Currently some barbershops apply make-up and use (hair) styles that
> are in line with those in European countries and America,"
> Eftekharifard said.
>
> He added: "An official order has been sent to the union ... not to
> apply make-up on men's faces (or) do eyebrows ... and hence the
> barbers are not allowed to do these things."
>
> Since hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the presidency in
> 2005 on a promise of returning to the values of the revolution,
> hardliners have pressed for tighter controls on what they consider
> immoral behavior.
>
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