IRAN: WOMEN WALK ON OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The new government under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is getting more and more Islamic legalistic radical in order to return to the olden days of murder and torture, intimidate and threaten.
Now the latest is that his regime has programmed the city streets. Iran’s “pedestrian walkways” will be segregated on “gender basis,” according to Iran Focus.

The deputy in Iran’s Majilis (Parliament) has stated that this is to be law. It is the contention of Fatemeh Alia that “new measure have been enforced to ‘return to the Islamic Republic to the days of the (1979 Islamic) revolution.’”
Both Ahmadinejad and Alia will work in concert to see that more restrictions are placed upon the public. No leniency. No hints of democracy. No opening the windows to freedom. It is instead a return to closure.

“As part of the government plan called ‘Increase the hejab (veil) culture and female chastity’, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has received orders to construct separate pedestrian walkways for men and women, according to Alia.”
It will be in two weeks that the program will be made public and put into operation. “This plan is the most advanced and complete plan regarding the hejab.”
Advanced? Apparently “advance” in Iran means to retreat to the dark caverns of barbarism.

The Mayor of Tehran had also announced that there would be separate elevators of males and females. This would be throughout his municipality.
“’The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development will have an obligation to construct apartments in a special way … which would be in line with the culture and atmosphere of an Islamic society. The Ministry of Roads and Transport must pay special attention to the walkways, roads, railways, and transportation routes so that we no longer get reports of mal-veiling in these routes’, the hard-line Majlis deputy said.

“Alia added that special provisions also had to be made for tourists who travel to Iran so that they also adhere to Islamic regulations.”
Anyone in the free world planning a jaunt to Iran in the near future. If so, learn how to walk on your gender side of the street—or else.

And as for the elevators, good luck.

And women: don’t forget to pack your veils.

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