Iranian Police Chief Jailed After Being Caught Nude With 6 Women

[Chris_]

Iranian Police Chief Jailed After Being Caught Nude With 6 Women

TEHRAN, Iran —  Tehran's police chief, who was in charge of fighting vice, has been taken to jail and his case is currently under investigation, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday.

But the spokesman, Ali Reza Jamshidi, refused to elaborate further about the case which has caught wide public attention in Iran, saying it is now in the "legal stage."

Jamshidi said he was not authorized to provide more information.

Local media have reported that the police chief, Gen. Reza Zarei, was taken to jail after he was caught last month with six nude women by a police raid on an underground local brothel. He was also forced to resign. Local Web sites have also extensively reported the case in recent weeks.

Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, have also confirmed the reported arrest circumstances.

Prostitution is illegal in Iran and even talking about sex is frowned upon by hard-line clerics ruling Iran. The order to raid the alleged brothel was reportedly given directly by Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

Zarei was in charge of a program to clean cities from corruption and in recent months had reported arrests of young men and women for illicit relationship or not respecting the Islamic dress code.

State media in recent weeks reported Zarei's replacement but made no mention of his arrest or the reasons that led to his detention since such issues are considered a taboo in Iran.

Iran's strict Islamic rules allow little socializing between the sexes, and young Iranians have been jailed and flogged for dancing together at birthday parties.

Well, at least he wasn't caught with six naked men.   

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[Dixie*Darling]

And what has become of the six women?  Have they been stoned to death yet?

Do you think Iran is planning to boycott the Olympics because of their stance on China's human rights violations?   pppffftt ... hardly. 

[Wretched Excess]

what is the penalty for this?  death?  cutting something off?  stoning?  penalizing (no pun intended) the chief a couple of virgins in paradise?

[Lord Undies]

Iran's strict Islamic rules allow little socializing between the sexes, and young Iranians have been jailed and flogged for dancing together at birthday parties.

Islamic rules dictate human nature is against the law.  Islamic rules and liberalism have that in common.  Never forget it.