NCRI – Chief of the State Security Forces (SSF), Brig. Gen. Hamid Sardr-al-Sadat in the central city of Isfahan said, "In the first six months of this year (Persian calendar year beginning March 21), 193,000 individuals were stopped in the streets for [immodest dressing] and 7,800 others were arrested" on the pretext of combating "hooligan and thugs," the state-run daily Quds reported on Monday.
Brig. Gen. Amir Ahmad Geravand, the commander of SSF in the western city of Kermanshah announced that 40,000 citizens have been given warnings since the "public security" plan was first introduced last April.
"Three thousand individuals were arrested while 400 others were summoned to courts," added Geravand in an interview with the state-run news agency ISNA on October 13.
Separately, the daily Quds reported on Sunday that the Chief of the SSF in the northwestern province of Khorasan Razavi announced that in the same period "the SSF agents had been engaged in 218 armed conflicts [with the citizens]" in which "one hundred" people were killed.
In only two Iranian provinces, Isfahan and Kermanshah alone, over 250,000 people have been stopped in the streets by the security forces under the pretext of fighting "immodest dressing."
Mullahs’ regime, unable to combat the popular uprisings by various sectors of the Iranian society: Workers, students, teachers, women and youths, has turned to more suppression.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations to condemn the barbaric violation of human rights in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 17, 2007