TEHRAN, Feb 29: Iranian security forces arrested 10 people who clashed with police in Tehran after they arrested a woman deemed to be badly veiled as part of a moral crackdown, a deputy police chief said on Friday.

“A sister was warned over her dress but she resisted. She refused to cooperate while being transferred to the patrol car and made a scene,” the ISNA news agency quoted Commander Hossein Zolfaghari as saying. “Some people were affected by the noise and clashed with the police and were eventually arrested,” he said. Nine people as well as the woman in question had been detained, he said, without giving further details.

Zolfaghari was commenting on an incident in the busy Sadeghieh square in western Tehran. —AFP