Iranian 'Morals' Police Arrest 230 people at 'satanist' rave
 

Holy crap this is fucked up... sometimes I forget really how free we are. WTF is an 'illicit CD' fuck!


http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2142458,00.html

Iranian Morals Police Arrest 230 in Raid on 'Satanist' Rave

Robert Tait in Tehran
Monday August 6, 2007
The Guardian

Iran's drive to enforce Islamic morals netted revellers from Britain and Sweden after police swooped on a "satanic" concert organised over the internet.

Police arrested 230 people and seized drugs, alcohol and 800 illicit CDs after raiding the event in Karaj, 12 miles west of Tehran. Those arrested included young women in skimpy and "inappropriate" clothing, officers said.

Reza Zarei, Tehran's provincial police chief, said the operation also resulted in the confiscation of 20 video cameras, with which organisers allegedly planned to shoot "obscene" films and then blackmail female participants.

The event included rock and rap performers as well as female singers, who are banned under Iran's Islamic laws. The authorities described the artistes as "satanist" without elaborating. Iran's rulers routinely label much of western-style popular music and culture as decadent.
Preparations were kept so secret that revellers were made aware of the venue only hours before the rave.

Although security guards were hired to act as lookouts and plans were made to clear the site of alcohol and drugs the police found 150 bottles of alcohol and drugs, including marijuana.

Most of the detainees came from rich families and included people from Iranian backgrounds who had travelled from Britain and Sweden, Mr Zarei said. "This is the first time that tens of male and female participants have been invited to such an event through an internet call," he told the semi-official ISNA news agency. Rock concerts are rarely permitted in Iran but are sometimes held illegally in venues such as underground car parks.

Last Wednesday's raid occurred during a government-backed "social security" campaign in which police have arrested or cautioned thousands of women whose dress or headscarves have been deemed insufficiently Islamic. While such offensives occur periodically, this year's has been carried out with unusual intensity over a prolonged period amid accusations that the US is trying to topple the Islamic regime through a "soft revolution".

Authorities last month doubled the number of officers deployed on morals patrols. Police have been instructed to arrest young men with "western" hairstyles. Those arrested are released only after giving the names of their barbers and making signed commitments to get hair-cuts. They then have to return to the police station to show their new hairstyles.

I remember when I was in Thailand in 1997, there was a big scandal going on in nearby Myanmar; a rave was busted and there was an Asian soap opera star at the event, high on ecstasy. Myanmar's drug policies are about as stringent as you can get and selling drugs there is punishable by death, so it was a Huge Issue that this starlet got busted while high. She immediately lost her job as an actress, and it was all over the newspapers, and her family was talking about disowning her.

We really do forget how safe we are here. In many parts of the world, the risk of partying (whether or not that involves drugs is often irrelevant) is a serious risk indeed.

ugh thank god. get those filthy ravers off the streets

why is the world still in back assed, big brother mode?

I would never step within 10 blocks of a rave in Iran for this very reason.

I would never step within 10 blocks of Iran, period. But maybe that's because I don't feel like being treated like I'm subhuman due to owning a vulva.

um their culture has been around for thousands of years longer than ours i THINK they know what they're doing robin. if anything we should be taking tips from them

Raves get busted in NA too...

Hey, as long as I'm allowed to have a harem of hot virgin girls for myself, I'm willing to get in on some Iranian action.

homosexuality is a sin robin dont you know ANYTHING

It's only a sin if you don't let the men watch. But I'm willing to sell tickets and put up some bleachers for them to sit on, so it's okay.

Religion is silly.

That, or something similar, would have been the reaction in the good ole' USA 200 years ago or so.

Religion is indeed silly. Except for Pastafarianism. I think it should be abundantly clear to everyone that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is, in fact, the only true religion.

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i love how witty you are robin :)
your replies were great ;)

"Authorities last month doubled the number of officers deployed on morals patrols. Police have been instructed to arrest young men with "western" hairstyles. Those arrested are released only after giving the names of their barbers and making signed commitments to get hair-cuts. They then have to return to the police station to show their new hairstyles."

so much for the high fade

wow... this is just ridiculous!

I didn't know you were a Pastafarian too!

i'm sacrificing a chicken and dripping its blood in the shape of pentacle next party i go to.

yesssssss
FSM baby! have YOU been touched by his noodly appendage?

in singapore, their drug laws are super crazy. a girl i was dating back in the day, who had lived in singapore, knew people she went to high school with who were executed. one guy actually sat two seats over from her in her english class. one of the other people involved in the incident is still in prison (over a decade now). they had all just turned 18 at the time. another person involved in the incident who also went to my ex's high school, fell off a 20th floor balcony trying to escape the police the night of the arrests and passed away.

when i was in singapore, there were tons of legal parties (this was back in 2001). on new years eve, we had a choice of carl cox at zouk/venom, sasha and digweed on santosa island beach and some other bigname at the tiny chocolate bar in boat quay. their rave scene was extremely separate from the dumbass drug culture that dogged the scene here in the late 90s. still, if you want to take crazy drugs, that should be your own personal decision. it's a pity that that has to be dealt with so harshly in these countries.

(my own humble opinion) if drugs were legal, it would remove a lot of the criminal element (but it might also potentially overload the health care system with dumbass partiers who don't know their limits and maybe even create some unexpected addicts)...

Hmmm.. more people drank during prohibition than when it was legal back in the day.. just an example..

heather wtf

yes mr. smarty pants?!?

1) where the hell have you been
2) post more you jerk