Iran is expanding the ban on dogs outside Tehran

Iranian officials have expanded the ban on walking dogs in Haradok across the country, citing.

The ban – reflecting the police order in 2019, which banned the dog in the capital, Tehran – was distributed at least 18 other cities last week. The transportation of dogs in vehicles was also prohibited.

Dog possession in Iran frowned after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and the dogs regarded the authorities as “unclean” and the heritage of Western cultural influence.

But despite the efforts to scare it, the ownership of dogs is growing, especially among young people, and this is seen as a form of uprising against the restrictive Iranian regime.

Cities, including Isfahan and Kerman, have presented bans in recent days, AFP news agency reports.

According to local media, an official from the western city Ila, where the ban was implemented on Sunday, said that “court laws” would be initiated against people who violated the new rules.

However, the implementation of the restrictions in the past has been spotty, while many dog ​​owners continue to walk in public in Tehran and other parts of Iran.

There is no national law that opens the ban on dog ownership, but the prosecutor’s office often issues local restrictions implemented by police.

“Walking dogs is a threat to health, peace and comfort,” said the Western City Prosecutor of Khamedan Abbas Najafi.

Owners were sometimes arrested while the dogs confiscated for going to public.

Many went to dog walking in secluded areas at night or ride them to avoid detection.

Politicians in Islamic regime consider the property of the pet non -Islamic. Many religious scientists view dogs or come into contact with their saliva as “Nadzi” or ritually unclean.

Iran’s High leader Ayatollah Ali Homena previously described the ownership of dogs – except for shepherd’s, hunting and security purposes.

In 2021, 75 legislators condemned the ownership of dogs as a “destructive social problem”, which can “gradually change the Iranian and Islamic lifestyle”.

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic leadership of Iran has banned advertising for pets or pet-related products in 2010-and in 2014 in parliament was a pursuit of a fine and even a walk of dogs, although the bill did not pass.

Following recent repression, critics claim that the police should focus on public security at the time of increasing concern about a severe crime rather than targeting dog owners and limiting personal freedoms.

Dog property, confrontation with the mandatory law on Iran’s hijab, visiting underground parties and alcohol consumption have long been a form of quiet uprising against the theocratic regime of Iran.