When Iran Forbidden dog walks in 2019Few dog owners were all so concerned about the order. But after years of lax enforcement, civil servants have promised in recent days to combat it, according to the news media of the state.
Public prosecutors in at least 20 cities mentioned the risks and threats of public health for public safety in announcing the increased enforcement of the ban, including both dog walks and riding with dogs.
“Dog Walking is a clear crime,” Mohammad Hossein Doroudi, the public prosecutor in Mashhad, told reporters on Monday when he announced that the city’s plan, According to IrnaA news output of the state.
Iran’s government has also seen dogs as a sign of Western cultural influence. And many of the opposition against dogs in Iran stemes from religious beliefs, with dogs considered ‘najes’ or impure, in Islam.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, had a fatwaOr religious order, explaining the logic: the saliva or her of a dog would make everything it touched – such as a person, clothing or a surface – impure.
“Prayer is invalid with the presence of dog hair,” read his fatwa.
Mr. Doroudi said that enforcement had expired over the past two years, but that officials were now planning to be much stricter. He said that offenders in Mashhad, the second most populated city of Iran, would first receive a warning and that they could be built a fine or that their dogs could be confiscated if they did not comply.
“Dog walking is considered a health threat and is considered a criminal behavior under the name of intimidation of women and children,” said Mr. Doroudi, Irna said.
Some in Iran share the skepticism about dogs as pets, and although some tolerate the presence of surveillance dogs, they see the story of the “man of the” man as a step too far.
When the prohibition of 2019 was announced, Hamidreza Taraghi, a hard politician, said in a Interview with the New York Times That increasing number of people complained to the police about dogs.
“We experience economic problems, but the dog lovers spend billions of dollars for dog food every year,” he said. “We need that money for more important things.”
But many Iranians love their dogs. Asal Bahrierad, a resident of Tehran, said at the time of her Shih Tzu Terrier, Teddy: “Nobody, even the police, cannot take him from me.” They also that the ban was not taken so seriously. “The police are actually very friendly to us,” she said about her daily walks with Teddy.
Some even see a dog in public as a calm rebellion against the Iranian government, who has long tried to maintain an Islamic lifestyle and to limit the bourgeois freedoms of citizens.
The efforts to limit the presence of dogs in public cities such as Tabriz, in western Iran and Kerman in the east, according to The state companies in Iran.
In Isfahan, in the center of the country, the Public Prosecutor, Seyed Mohammad Moussavian, said that he had instructed law enforcement officers to conquer “violation of vehicles” and “Seal of unauthorized stores and veterinary offices”. “
In Hamedan, in the west of Iran, the office of the provincial public prosecutor said that walking dogs or driving with them was’ against religious and social values’ and ‘considered’ a threat to public health ‘, according to Irna. Abbas Najafi, the public prosecutor, said that dog walk was “considered a threat to health, comfort and tranquility of citizens,” said Irna.
He promised “serious action” against offenders, Irna reported, and said that the police were instructed to “grab physical vehicles systematically and physically” from someone who was caught driving a dog.
In Tehran, dog owners don’t seem to be deterred Through attempts to limit their dogs, an attitude that may be proven by the growing number of veterinarians in the Iranian capital. About 25 years ago, the city had only one clinic for pets, and that was it manned by veterinarians. Now there are dozens.
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