{"id":890,"date":"2010-07-07T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T10:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/halal-hair-defends-glorious-iranian-revolution.html"},"modified":"2010-07-07T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T10:52:01","slug":"halal-hair-defends-glorious-iranian-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/halal-hair-defends-glorious-iranian-revolution.html","title":{"rendered":"Halal hair defends glorious Iranian revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iranhair.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/199\/import\/iranhair.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"408\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/07\/world\/middleeast\/07haircut.html?scp=1&amp;sq=%22iran%22%20%22hair%22&amp;st=cse\">You just know that young Iranians are laughing their butts off:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The haircut guidelines appear to be aimed at balancing the more aggressive enforcement with a softer promotion. On Monday, the director of the Veil and Chastity Day festival, Jaleh Khodayar, appeared at a news conference with hundreds of barbers and hairdressers to release the haircut posters and explain the campaign.<br \/>\n&#8220;We do not intend to reverse the culture,&#8221; Ms. Khodayar said, according to the semiofficial ILNA news agency. &#8220;We want to preserve our culture and respect Iranian tradition and come up with hairstyles that confront Western cultural invasion.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Veil and Chastity Day Festival? Oh, that&#8217;s one hell of a throwdown, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You just know that young Iranians are laughing their butts off: The haircut guidelines appear to be aimed at balancing the more aggressive enforcement with a softer promotion. 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