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"La N" <nilita2004NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's another apropo of nothing ...:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/29/iranian.haricuts.reut/
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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Am I the only one who thinks Iran will evenutally implode on its own? I am
of the firm conviction that if left alone Iran will undergo its own regime
change without outside interferance.


Mark


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