“Cell phone Police” crack down on users
Washington, 14 August (IranVNC)—Iranian security agents have been assigned to vet mobile phones in use by people in public places and on streets to make sure they are not being used for “immoral purposes,” according to Iranian press reports.
By: IranVNC
Published: Friday, August 15, 2008
23:10GMT—7:10PM/EST
IRAN – CELLPHONE – SECURITY
Washington, 14 August (IranVNC)—Iranian security agents have been assigned to vet mobile phones in use by people in public places and on streets to make sure they are not being used for “immoral purposes,” according to Iranian press reports.
The “Special Crimes Prevention Task Force” in Iran’s East Azarbayjan Province is now requiring security agents to inspect the mobile phones of anybody they suspect of immoral intentions and turn the users and their mobile phones to the Revolution prosecutor’s office.
The East Azarbayjan judiciary chief told Kayhan Newpaper that “immoral Bluetooth’s and pornographic CDs offend the feelings of the people and the police should clamp down on them.”
The growing use of mobile phones by ordinary people on the street as well as political and civil activists has become a cause of annoyance to the Iranian authorities, particularly when violent behavior of the “morality police” towards women whose attire is not in line with Islamic dress code have been posted on the Internet and other forms of international media.
Sources: Kayhan Newspaper, BBC Persian
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(Original article written in Persian.)