TEHRAN: According to local media on Monday, Iranian authorities have shut down three coffee shops in the capital city of Qom because female clients were not covering their heads.
According to a statement from Iran's ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards, which appeared in the daily Hamshari, "Three coffee shops were shuttered in Qom due to many violations, including women's absence of veils and other concerns."
Before taking legal action, the police called the owners of the cafes
150 kilometres (93 miles) south of the Iranian capital Tehran is the city of Qom, which Shiites regard as the location where they think the twelfth imam of Shiite Islam will return.
Iranian law expresses that all women, regardless of ethnicity or religious affiliation, cover their bodies with loose clothing and wear veils in public since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
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