How Iran has intensified its crackdown on women under cover of war

Iran's 'morality police' have intensified their crackdown on women defying hijab rules in several cities over the past week in the shadows of the country’s conflict with Israel.
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Footage circulating online shows an increased number of officials patrolling streets since 12 April and, in some cases, violently dragging women into the back of white vans. It comes after the police chief, Abbas Ali Mohammadian, announced a new phase to crack down on women defying the hijab rules. Some people in Iran are calling this is a war on women, at a time when the world’s attention is on tensions in the Middle East.
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UN is pretty quiet huh

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The peas full ones eh, what can you do?

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Whatever they do, that is their own country, and that is their own law, not occupying someone else's land or killing babies.

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Its funny that we can still state, with clairty, the precise gender of a group or individual when we need to.