A Rueters reporter, Fredrik Dahl, has been in Iran since March 2007. Until now, Dahl has never witnessed the Iranian Hijab Storm Troopers in action, only reported about them.
Now Dahl reports on his own eyewitness account....
Wearing a brightly colored headscarf and high-heeled boots, the woman refused to be bundled into the police van without a fight.
Protesting loudly and even trying to escape, her standoff with Iranian police cracking down on women violating the Islamic dress code lasted several minutes.
But the outcome of the drama shortly after dusk on a cold winter's day on Tehran's most famous boulevard was never in doubt.
"Hijab problem," one male onlooker said, referring to the clothes women must wear in Iran to cover their hair and disguise the shape of their bodies to conform with Iran's Islamic laws.
But this was the first time I saw it happening. More....
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