{"id":49765,"date":"2016-04-19T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49765"},"modified":"2016-04-19T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:17:08","slug":"win-some-lose-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49765","title":{"rendered":"Win some, lose some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; tensions between Iran and the Saudis extend to the morality police level ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-600-morality-police.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-600-morality-police.png\" alt=\"Tablet DQ 600 morality police\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-600-morality-police.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-600-morality-police-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain irony in the concept of &#8220;undercover&#8221; cops in a context where, as RFE\/RL reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tehran&#8217;s police chief Hossein Sajedinia said that the male and female agents &#8212; numbering around 7,000 &#8212; will focus on issues such as &#8220;improper veiling and removal of veils inside cars,&#8221; as well as noise pollution and reckless driving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tssue of &#8220;covering&#8221; has also been one of the problems with the Saudi <strong>Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2002, 15 girls died in Mecca after the police prevented them from fleeing a burning building because they were not deemed to be appropriately covered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>NY Times<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/16\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-moves-to-curb-its-feared-religious-police.html\">Saudi Arabia Moves to Curb Its Feared Religious Police<\/a>\n<li><strong>Radio Free Europe<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/iran-undercover-morality-unit-persian-letters\/27682351.html\">Iran Launches Undercover Morality Unit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; tensions between Iran and the Saudis extend to the morality police level ] . ** There&#8217;s a certain irony in the concept of &#8220;undercover&#8221; cops in a context where, as RFE\/RL reports: Tehran&#8217;s police chief Hossein Sajedinia said that the male and female agents &#8212; numbering around 7,000 &#8212; will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,93,786,1,1326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-iran","category-saudi-arabia","category-uncategorized","category-virtue-and-vice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49769,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765\/revisions\/49769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}