Iranian vice chief gets stuck into his work

[Peter]

Iranian vice chief 'caught in brothel'
Alexi Mostrous

An Iranian police chief in charge of fighting vice in Tehran was jailed today for reportedly consorting in an underground brothel.

Local media reported that General Reza Zarei was jailed after being caught with six naked women at a prostitution den in the Iranian capital.

Ali Reza Jamshidi, a spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, confirmed today that Mr Zarei had been taken to jail. He refused to elaborate further about the case, however, saying it was now “in the legal stage.”

But officials, speaking anonymously, have supported the allegations, which have been extensively reported in recent weeks.
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Prostitution is illegal in Iran and even talking about sex is frowned upon by the hard-line clerics ruling the country. The order to raid the alleged brothel was reportedly given directly by Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

Mr Zarei was in charge of a program to clean cities from corruption and in recent months had reported arrests of young men and women for illicit relationships and not respecting the Islamic dress code.

State media in recent weeks reported Mr Zarei’s replacement but made no mention of his arrest or the reasons that led to his detention.

Iran’s strict Islamic rules allow little socialising between the sexes, and young Iranians have been jailed and flogged for dancing together at birthday parties.

Under Iranian law prostitution is punishable by death. But in the past decade, prostitutes are becoming more visible on Iranian streets, mainly due to economic hardships.

The rise in prostitution has led to suggestions that brothels be legalised and monitored. Some Iranians say brothels could be run according to Islamic rules, perhaps under the Shiite Muslim tradition which allows men and women to enter into “temporary marriages”, sometimes for less than 24 hours.

Most clerics, though, maintain that sex outside marriage can never be condoned by Islam. After the 1979 revolution, clerics destroyed brothels as un-Islamic and corrupting.

[Pyraxis]

  "Temporary marriage"....

Fundies everywhere are the same. They can't escape biology.

[Parts]

How many people in these countries with the extreme laws actually want them or even abide by them.  I have known Saudis and they hate it there 

And if they make it legal with temporary marriages just what will be aloud 

[Tesla]

"Temporary marriage"....

Fundies everywhere are the same. They can't escape biology.

 

 

[Alex179]

"Temporary marriage"....

Fundies everywhere are the same. They can't escape biology.

The religions themselves can't either.   Fundies at least read it for what it is worth.   Skipping words for convenience is pretty weaksauce if you are going to call yourself a true practicioner of a religion.   Picking and choosing is pretty crappy imo if you even believe in a omnipotent power.   I really don't, but I enjoy taking some positives from each religion as there are more than a few.

People should change their vows (if they are going to do them) to what they intend for the marriage.  Til death do us part, in sickness and in health, and the rest are way too difficult to deal with for most people these days.

[Pyraxis]

Agreed, on all counts.

[Callaway]

"Temporary marriage"....

Fundies everywhere are the same. They can't escape biology.

The religions themselves can't either.   Fundies at least read it for what it is worth.   Skipping words for convenience is pretty weaksauce if you are going to call yourself a true practicioner of a religion.   Picking and choosing is pretty crappy imo if you even believe in a omnipotent power.   I really don't, but I enjoy taking some positives from each religion as there are more than a few.

People should change their vows (if they are going to do them) to what they intend for the marriage.  Til death do us part, in sickness and in health, and the rest are way too difficult to deal with for most people these days.

That's a good point, to make the marriage vows more honest to the expectations of the two people getting married, but I think that many people who marry actually expect it to be forever, even if it does not turn out that way.

When my husband and I spoke to the minister who was going to perform our wedding, I asked him not to include "obey" in the vows that I was expected to say, because I did not want to start out our marriage with a lie, and there was no way I was going to "obey" my husband.

[Peter]

'We hereby promise to have some manner of relationship until such time that we decide otherwise."

[Pyraxis]

That's a good point, to make the marriage vows more honest to the expectations of the two people getting married, but I think that many people who marry actually expect it to be forever, even if it does not turn out that way.

I think people should keep a vow, if they make it, and to know themselves well enough not to make it, if there's a chance they won't keep it. Of course on that note I don't ever intend to say "till death do us part" to anyone, because people change. But if you can't trust a person's vow, what can you trust from them?

When my husband and I spoke to the minister who was going to perform our wedding, I asked him not to include "obey" in the vows that I was expected to say, because I did not want to start out our marriage with a lie, and there was no way I was going to "obey" my husband.