Farda News is a website said to be close to the mayor of Tehran and former chief
of the police forces, Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf.
Following the raid, Zarei stepped down from his post as police chief. The news
of his arrest however was not reported by any official Iranian news agency.
According to a popular Iranian website Gooya, the order to raid the brothel was
given directly by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, chief of the judicial
authorities.
Before he was arrested, Zarei was in charge of the programme for the
'moralisation of the city'.
Reza Zarei led the modesty crackdown on women in Tehran where an unspecified
number of the women taken into custody were also forced to undergo
psychological counseling.
Zarei led the morality crackdown in Tehran this past year. This is what he told
AFP back in October 2007:
Since the drive began police in his region have handed out 113,454 warnings to
women found to have infringed Iran's strict Islamic dress rules.
"Of these 1,600 cases have been given to the judiciary" for further
investigation, he said.
He added that 5,700 people -- including 1,400 men -- have been sent to
"guidance classes" on how to behave in society. Maybe the pressure was just too
much for him. Six?
Sugiero adds that the the good Police Commander in charge of implementing
Islamic Morality is fond of watching women offer their daily prayers in the
nude. Iran Press Service reported:
Revolutionary Guard General Reza Zare'i, the Commander of the Police for
Greater Tehran had been arrested three weeks ago enjoying the company of six
completely nude women parading in a house he had rented ", the websites
reported, adding that the women had told agents that the General had told them
to take all their dresses and pray completely nude".
