{"id":4575,"date":"2011-07-30T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2011-07-28T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T01:43:12","slug":"washington-post-irans-ahmadinejad-clerics-fight-over-length-of-womens-veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/washington-post-irans-ahmadinejad-clerics-fight-over-length-of-womens-veils","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Iran&#8217;s Ahmadinejad, clerics fight over length of women&#8217;s veils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer, Iranian police get tough on women who violate the country\u2019s strict Islamic dress code by adjusting their veils and long coats to try to cope with the rising temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>But this year, amid the annual crackdown, the issue of how women wear the veil \u2014 and what the government does about it \u2014 has become part of an intensifying rift between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and powerful Shiite clerics.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative clerics, and like-minded military commanders, complain that Ahmadinejad must do more to ensure that the dress code is strictly enforced, even, as some have said, \u201cif blood needs to be shed.\u201d Some of them have also blamed recent violence against women on the victims themselves, arguing that they are at fault because of their failure to wear the veil properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle-east\/ahmadinejad-and-clerics-fight-over-scarves\/2011\/07\/12\/gIQAhoqJPI_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer, Iranian police get tough on women who violate the country\u2019s strict Islamic dress code by adjusting their veils and long coats to try to cope with the rising temperatures. 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