FASHION NEWS FROM IRAN – AT 6:36 A.M. ET:  One thing about the rulers of Iran, they are fashion conscious, and they have very definite tastes.  From AFP:

Iranian police have issued warnings to 62,000 women who were "badly veiled" in the Shiite holy province of Qom as part of a clampdown on dress and behaviour, a newspaper said on Monday.
Around "62,000 women were warned for being badly veiled" in the province of Qom, Tehran Emrouz newspaper quoted provincial police chief Colonel Mehdi Khorasani as saying.

It was unclear whether all the women issued with warnings were from Qom or the tally included travellers passing through the province.

Khorasani said police had also confiscated around 100 cars for carrying improperly dressed women, adding that "encouraging such relaxations are among the objectives of the enemy."

Yeah, the CIA has a whole department devoted to veils. 

The population of Qom is more than one million, with most of them concentrated in the city itself which is Shiite Iran's clerical nerve-centre.

By law, women in the Islamic republic must be covered from head to foot, with their hair completely veiled, and social interaction is banned between men and women who are not related.

COMMENT:  Now, we await the response of Western "human rights" and "women's rights" groups to this.  Can you hear the silence already?  Forced veiling only gives a hint of the oppression of Iranian women, and Muslim women generally.  And it gives a hint of what's in store for our civilization if this madness is not resisted. 

We hope that someone gives Barack Obama a copy of this story, maybe as he's resting at the 9th or 10th hole.

June 22, 2010