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Iran: Issuing special IDs for ‘thugs and hooligans’

police arrests in TehranNCRI – Colonel Mehdi Ahmadi chief of operations for the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – in greater Tehran announced a new plan to issue special ID cards for "thugs and hooligans" in the capital, reported the state-run news agency ISNA on Tuesday.

"Issuing IDs for the convicts with criminal records is to keep track of their behavior. They have to report on a set schedule to nearest police precinct," Ahmadi added.

He commented on the progress of the "boosting public security plan" and said, "To comply with the mandates of the plan, the police will seize vehicles charged with disturbing women for two weeks. And if the owner commits the same misdemeanor for a second time then there will be full judicial prosecution," Colonel Ahmadi said.

"The winter is just around the corner and we should be prepared to enforce the dress code for women," Ahmadi added.

The so-called "boosting public security plan" was first introduced in April 2007 to combat popular uprisings. Mass street arrests of hundreds of thousands of women and youth under the pretext of "mal-veiling" and cracking down on "thugs and hooligans" followed. In the same period, more than 300 prisoners were sent to gallows.