Iran cracks down on 'immoral' modelsPotkin Azarmehr/Twitter Wedding-dress model Elham Arab appears in front of a prosecutor with her blond hair tucked under a chador. The model crackdown is just the latest move by authorities to control online expression in Iran. The previous Spider operation targeted "pornography and insulting Islamic sanctity", officials have said. "We must fight with enemy's actions in this area," Dowlatabadi was quoted by the state-owned IRAN newspaper as saying. In recent years, Iranian women – especially in the capital, Tehran – have worn the mandatory scarf loosely on their head, drawing the ire of conservatives in the Islamic Republic.

Source: Stuff May 17, 2016 03:55 UTC