14 Things Iran Women Police Can Do That You Can’t – Pics

Posted by Bill Belew on February 27th, 2009 in Asia, Asia News | 8 Comments

After writing these 20 Must Know Facts about Iran + Map, I must admit to becoming more intrigued about things Iranian, Persian and the like.

I had never seen nor imagined what a policewoman in Iran would look/be like. Now, I know, a little.

Here are at least 14 things, in pix, that Iran’s women police can do that I can’t do, (Well, I do know how to rappel. But not with a manteau on.) Can you?

In Iran, restrictions on women were more severe in the early days of the Islamic Republic.

Females who didn’t cover all parts of their body, except hands and face, were subject to punishment of up to seventy lashes or sixty days imprisonment.

Women were encouraged to stay at home and not seek a job until the Iran-Iraq War started and women’s employment was needed

In the year 1997 Iran women defied the ban on entering soccer stadiums in an act of protest against sex segregation.

An estimated 5,000 women stormed the gates of the national stadium to join 120,000 men in celebration of Iran’s national football team which had returned to the country after participating in the 1998 World Cup

These girls

can do this

and this and this and this…


 

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  1. nirmal s maunder says

    March 1, 2009

    what adress for action.It is really funny.

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  2. Doofas says

    February 28, 2009

    Um… “Iranians are a strong nation” ?

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  3. Jen says

    February 27, 2009

    Mike summed that up quite succinctly

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  4. David says

    February 27, 2009

    They can’t get married without their fathers permission though. Among other things

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  5. Mike says

    February 27, 2009

    This is stupid I can do all those things in the pictures those women are only shooting guns, standing in lines, using one baton to block another, and repelling. Any able bodied person can do all of these things

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  6. Naveed says

    February 27, 2009

    Iranians are a strong nation, anybody can say that any able bodied person can do all of these things, but it requires courage and determination to serve for the country.

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