Brickbat: Who Wears Short Shorts?
Iran’s parliament is set to pass a bill regulating how men dress in public, banning apparel that “is against public modesty, such as clothing that does not cover a part of the body lower than the chest or higher than the ankle.” But the Basij, the nation’s morality police, is already enforcing the law. They have been beating and arresting men caught wearing shorts in public, at a time when temperatures reaching 45° Celsius (113° Fahrenheit) and frequent power outages have led many men to wear shorts outside.
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