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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's moral crackdown has widened
its focus from stylishly dressed women to curvaceous
shop-window mannequins, a newspaper reported on
Tuesday.

Morals police have banned shopkeepers from showing
unveiled dummies and lingerie in their windows.

And men were now forbidden to sell women's underwear,
Sharq newspaper said.

"Using unveiled mannequins that reveal their bodies'
curves is banned," it quoted part of a new police
manual as saying.

Shops breaking the rules risk closure and losing their
trading licenses.

Lawmakers are debating an Iranian dress code,
advocated last month by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who called for a national costume that
avoided European models.

"A national costume will be designed for men and women
based on Islamic and national criteria," conservative
deputy Fatemeh Alia was quoted as saying in the
Siyasat-e Rouz daily.

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