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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: In Iran, no one perceived as a Western ally is safe
Description: Iran (MNN) — Iran is intensifying crackdowns on anything perceived as “Western.”
On April 13 – the same day Tehran launched drone attacks on Israel – the regime also announced a new campaign called Noor, or “light” in Persian. The campaign increases efforts by the morality police to punish women not wearing hijab in public.
The header photo shows an Iranian woman. (Photo courtesy of TruedynamicPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
Iranian women who’ve been arrested without head coverings say they are physically and verbally assaulted — accused of loving the West and loving America.
Iranian Christians...