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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. [6] [7] [8]
The Public Security Police is involved with the fight against organized crime and enforcing the Iranian telecommunications law. In recent years, the Public Security Police has also assumed an economic police role: it confronted network marketing groups and pyramid schemes by brutally beating, arresting, imprisoning, starving, torturing and ...
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 ...
Police in Iran shut down the Turkish Airlines office in the capital of Tehran, Iranian media reported Tuesday, after female employees there apparently refused to wear the mandatory headscarf, or ...
Watch live as former soldier Daniel Khalife is sentenced on Monday, 3 February, for spying for Iran and escaping from prison. The 23-year-old was serving in the British Army when he “exposed ...
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Iranian Police Special Units were established in 1991, after the disbanding of the previous law enforcement forces and the establishment of the then-Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [3] The Special Units, with roots in the Islamic Revolution Committees, [4] were led by Mojtaba Abdollahi from their establishment until 2012. [3]
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. [5] 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.