April 16, 2008

Tehran “Anti-Vice” Chief Caught With Six Naked Prostitutes

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Move over Eliot Spitzer… and let us now puzzle over yet another humiliation of a public figure: General Reza Zarei, chief of police in Tehran and (until now) the figurehead for the Iranian regime’s crackdown on feminine “immodesty.” Zarei was reportedly arrested in an underground brothel in the company of six naked prostitutes. For now, the fallen police chief sits in an Iranian jail, pending further investigation. It’s unclear how his arrest might impact Tehran’s enforcement of its anti-vice laws, which forbid women from showing their hair or wearing make-up in public and have subjected young people to floggings for the crime of dancing together at house parties. One can only wonder at how the clerics might punish General Zarei.

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