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A video showing morality police in Iran forcefully seizing a woman over her appearance has highlighted the tactics of those official enforcers of Iran's strict Islamic dress code, which became obligatory after the 1979 revolution.

An official statement quoted by local media said that Iran’s interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, has ordered an investigation into the incident, which sent the woman into hysterics over her rough treatment.

"Why such a violent arrest? For not wearing a hijab?" one voice asks the female officer who initially grabs the woman, in reference to the mandatory covering of head and hair with an Islamic head scarf.

The official statement described the treatment of the woman as “unusual.”

But Iranians on social media have challenged that claim, suggesting that there is nothing unusual about police use of physical and verbal violence against women accused of failing to respect the dress code.

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