Iran cracks down on summer dress codes

Again. I remember writing about this last year or maybe even the year before. Only this time I noticed something in the way this article was written suggesting that perhaps an increase in the possibility of military conflict with the US, there were crackdowns happening at home.

The campaign in the streets of major cities is the toughest such crackdown in nearly two decades, raising fears that hard-liner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to re-impose the tough Islamic Revolution-era constraints on women’s dress that had loosened in recent years.
The move highlighted the new boldness among hard-liners in Ahmadinejad’s government, which has used mounting Western pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program and Iraq as a pretext to put down internal dissent.

So let me get this straight. Increased pressure of military invasion from the US leads to a crackdown on women’s rights? Interesting. Maybe we can remember this when Condaleeza Rice or Laura Bush try and use feminist rhetoric to justify military invasion.
via GuardianUK.