Slog - Comments on Policing Tehran http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran The day this turning world of ours ceases to surprise me is the day two pennies are placed on my eyes: In 2003 the first group of female cadets graduated from Iran’s police academy. Tehran’s police chief Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf—now the mayor of Tehran—had obtained permission from the country’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, to create the all-female police units, and these policewomen were the products of a three-year training program. Abbas Kowsari was allowed to photograph the academy’s graduation ceremony in 2005, a dramatic pageant, and a historical anomaly. “During Qalibaf’s time as police chief,” the photographer said, “policewomen... Copyright 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:01:11 -0800 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:19:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by w7ngman I thought there were no lesbians in Iran.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183716 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183716 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:21:27 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe That picture just kicked my face off. Fucking awesome.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183723 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183723 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:28:21 -0800 Comment by P to the J I agree with Poe. If the picture had no context, I would assume it was from a movie. "From the files of Iranian Police Squad!"

]]> P to the J http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183725 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183725 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:31:17 -0800 Comment by PC Obama giving a speech right now, it's great how he ties together what's best of America talking of fighting hte depression ww2 and the civil rights struggle, ie, he owns and lets us own all those things together producing unity and national purpose not just 1970s era democratic constiuent-group agglomeration politics.

just sayin'

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183731 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183731 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:34:32 -0800 Comment by gordon nice Mercedes Police car

]]> gordon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183734 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183734 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:37:21 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Marjane Satrapi should totally do a graphic novel about this.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183738 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:50:38 -0800 Comment by laterite That is one of the most bad-ass pictures I have ever seen.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183785 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:51:58 -0800 Comment by inkweary Great pic., but not without precedent. during the late stages of the prolonged Iran/Iraq war there were so few able-bodied Iranian men left the geovernment inducted and trained battalions of women for local defense militias.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183822 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/policing_tehran#c1183822 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:19:16 -0800