NCRI – Unprecedented number of arrests of women and youths by the State Security Forces (SSF) under the pretext of "mal-veiling" and combating "hooligans and thugs," continue to rise.
Chief of SSF in Tehran Province, Brig. Gen. Reza Zarei said, "In improving the ‘public security,’ 1,410 individuals have been arrested."
"To improve the ‘public security,’ 113,454 individuals were stopped and advised [on how to properly dress] in the public. Out of those, 5,000 were just given oral warnings by the SSF agents and 1,690 others were summoned to courts for criminal investigation," said Zarei to the state-run news agency ISNA on September 20, 2007.
Separately, the head of "public security promotion" office, Brig. Gen. Rahim Hidari announced that in the southwestern province of Khuzestan more than 36,000 people were arrested since the so-called "public security" plan was first introduced.
In the northern province of Mazandaran, two separate figures for arrests during the same period were given by the Chief of the SSF, Brig. Gen. Mehdi Tavakoli in that region; a 43,000 in "the campaign against ‘mal-veiling’" and another 38,000 for something called keeping "troublemakers" off the streets.
Four stages of a plan known as "public security" have already been implemented by the mullahs’ regime in Iran. The real aim of such measures is to fight the increasing popular uprisings by different sectors of the society, in particular, workers, teacher, students, women and youths.
The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of all human rights organizations to the brutal suppression of the Iranian people by the medieval clerical regime and calls for adopting urgent measure to stop the growing wave of arbitrary executions in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 9, 2007