Ahmad-Reza Radan press conference, 19 February 2017 (1395120113094845510050934)

Brigadier-General Ahmad-Reza Radan is the current head of Centre for Strategic Studies of the Iranian Law Enforcement Force. He was deputy commander of the

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and as

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

's police chief, infamous for his crackdown on "unislamic" hair and dress style. Radan started his career as a member of

Iranian Revolutionary Guards The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...

during the

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council ...

, and he also served as a commander during the war. He also held various posts in the

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(IRIP), including as police commander of Razavi Khorasan Province. During the war, he was injured more than four times, but returned to war-zone to defend his country against

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i forces. Radan is well known for his actions on Islamic dress code and distribution of illegal drugs as well as controlling thug gangs. In his commanding years, he made four of major provinces of Iran more secure. He served as police commander of Kurdistan Province, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Khorasan Province, and also Tehran Province, the most important province in Iran. Radan has been designated by the

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as a person who is, "among other things, responsible for or complicit in, or responsible for ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, the commission of serious

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abuses against citizens of

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or their family members."

Public Security Plan and Moralization Campaign

In 2007, Ahmad-Reza Radan launched a "

Public Security Plan In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

". The police arrested dozens of "thugs" to increase public security. The thugs were sometimes beaten on camera in front of neighborhood inhabitants, or forced to wear hanging watering cans used for lavatory ablutions around their necks. Among the arrested people was

Meysam Lotfi Meysam, Maitham or Maytham ( ar, ميثم, az, Meysəm, tr, Meysem, fa, میثم) is an internationally used male name given name originating from the Semitic languages. The name comes from the Arabic root w-th-m and means ''crushing'' as in ...

, a young Iranian who was previously arrested during Iran student riots in July 1999 and jailed for 6 months. According to his parents, he has never had any criminal records or background of illegal action, and has never been arrested or jailed before, omitting the 1999 riots event. He was listed for execution, a sentence that was later changed to a three-year prison sentence after the media coverage and the attempts of his parents as well as human-rights activists. His former lawyer was

Abdolfattah Soltani Abdolfattah Soltani ( fa, عبدالفتاح سلطانی; born 2 November 1953) is an Iranian human rights lawyer and spokesman for the Defenders of Human Rights Center. He co-founded the group with Mohammad Seifzadeh and Nobel Peace Prize-winne ...

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External links

* Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. "Violent Aftermath: The 2009 Election and Suppression of Dissent in Iran." Feb. 2010, New Haven, CT. https://web.archive.org/web/20100602191028/http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/Violent%20Aftermath.pdf p. 51 {{DEFAULTSORT:Radan, Ahmad Reza Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Iranian police officers