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Iran launches sex-segregated parks |
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Saturday, 29 July 2006 |
Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – Iran will soon launch new women’s only parks in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran.
The City Islamic Council in Qom announced that it had put forward a plan to segregate four of the city’s parks.
In August, the National Women’s Council announced that a sex-segregated park was under development in the north-eastern city of Mashad.
The development of sex-segregated parks was given a big boost after hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guards commander, became Iran’s president. Prior to his rise to the presidency, Ahmadinejad was the Mayor of Tehran. One of his first decisions in the city hall was to order gender segregation on elevators.
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