Posted by Iranian on May 1, 2007, 7:00 pm, in reply to "Mullah's ban men from plucking their eyebrows" --Previous Message--
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I guess it is not as bad as having to shave your ass or wax your leggs and ass in America HA!
: Next will be random checks for back
: shaving:
: TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iranian
: police have warned barbers against
: offering Western-style hair cuts or
: plucking the eyebrows of their male
: customers, Iranian media said
: Sunday.
:
: The report by a reformist daily,
: later confirmed by an Iranian news
: agency, appeared to be another sign
: of authorities cracking down on
: clothing and other fashion deemed to
: be against Islamic values.
:
: "Western hairstyles ... have
: been banned," the newspaper
: Etemad said in a front-page
: headline.
:
: It came a week after police launched
: a crackdown against the growing
: number of young women testing the
: limits of the law with shorter,
: brighter and skimpier clothing ahead
: of the summer months.
:
: Under Iran's Islamic Sharia law,
: imposed after the 1979 revolution,
: women are obligated to cover their
: hair and wear long, loose-fitting
: clothes to disguise their figures.
:
: Violators can receive lashes, fines
: and imprisonment.
:
: The student news agency ISNA quoted
: a police statement as saying:
: "In an official order to
: barbershops, they have been warned
: to avoid using Western hair styles
: and doing men's eyebrows."
:
: Iranian young men have in recent
: years started paying more attention
: to the way they look and dress,
: especially in affluent parts of the
: capital Tehran. Spiked up hair, by
: using gel, is known as the Khorusi
: (Rooster) style and some also use
: make-up.
:
: Several hairdressers for men in
: Tehran offer cuts in the style of
: Hollywood movie stars and other
: Western celebrities. Clients can
: also have their eyebrows plucked.
:
: The head of the barbers' union,
: Mohammad Eftekharifard, said police
: had instructed it to "exercise
: specific regulations in barbershops
: that work under its
: supervision."
:
: Barbers who do not follow these
: rules might be closed down for a
: month and even lose their permits to
: operate, Etemad quoted him as
: saying.
:
: "Currently some barbershops
: apply make-up and use (hair) styles
: that are in line with those in
: European countries and
: America," Eftekharifard said.
:
: He added: "An official order
: has been sent to the union ... not
: to apply make-up on men's faces (or)
: do eyebrows ... and hence the
: barbers are not allowed to do these
: things."
:
: Since hardline President Mahmoud
: Ahmadinejad won the presidency in
: 2005 on a promise of returning to
: the values of the revolution,
: hardliners have pressed for tighter
: controls on what they consider
: immoral behavior.
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