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The Guidance Patrol, commonly called the "morality police", is a vice squad/Islamic religious police in the Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran, established in 2005 with the task of arresting people who violate the Islamic dress code, usually concerning the wearing by women of hijabs covering their hair. [10] [11] [12]
The Special Units Command consists of riot units as well as of specialist units for hostage rescue, mounted police, riot police, police dog, airborne, etc. [6] The Special Units Command headquarters are in Tehran, and its commander is Brigadier General Hasan Karami since 2012. The number of Special Units Command troops has never been disclosed.
International Police of NAJA (Persian: پلیس بینالملل ناجا) is part of Law Enforcement Command of Islamic Republic of Iran in charge of extradition and tasked to cooperate with INTERPOL. [1] Brigadier General Hadi Shirzad is currently head of the department. [2] The department is a National Central Bureau since 28 February ...
In the June-July 2023 FARAJA police shortly made it possible to order a passport online for Iraq in "My police" for those who have Iranian identity card , it has since taken down people have to go to offices of Police + 10 , Iraqi travel passport called "Pilgrim" is 20% - 30% cheaper than real passport. [5] [6]
Since the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution, Iranian law has required that all women in Iran wear a hijab that covers their head and neck, and conceals their hair. [6] In the 1980s, the Islamic Revolution Committees served the function of the Islamic religious police in Iran. In 2005, the Guidance Patrol became its successor organization.
An Israeli resident of Jerusalem has been arrested on suspicion of being in contact with Iranian intelligence agents as part of a plot to carry out an attack in Israel in return for payment ...
The country’s new reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian campaigned on a promise to halt the harassment of women by morality police. But the 85-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ...
2009–10: during the election protests, police and the Basij paramilitary group suppressed not only rioting but also peaceful demonstrating, using batons, pepper spray, sticks and firearms. The Iranian government confirmed the deaths of 36 people during the protests, [ 7 ] while unconfirmed reports by supporters of Mousavi allege that there ...