NCRI – Women refuse to wear a chador are banned from sitting in the first three rows of the prestigious Rudaki Hall in Tehran.
"Ladies intent to sit in the fist three rows of the theater must wear chador," said in a statement Rudaki Hall state-run management.
However, Asghar Amirnia, the newly appointed management has not issued any directives to employees at the theater to distribute chadors to women at the cloak rooms. It has become customary in some mosques in Iran since the start of the mullahs' regime to give out chadors to women whishing to take part in the prayer sermons on Fridays.
Amirnia in his first press conference after his appointment as the new general manager of Rudaki Hall made it clear that "art for the sake of art is nonsense. Art is valuable when it is at the service of the society. Otherwise spending money on anything else is wasting it."
The clerical regime is very strict when it comes to women obeying the dress codes. The purpose of the so-called "boosting public security plan" which was introduced last year was to force women out of the public life.
