Two women have been arrested for breaking “revolutionary norms and values” after being filmed riding a motorbike in Iran.

Officials in the city of Dezful said they had “exploited the opportunity” presented by a lack of police in a national park to commit an “obscene act” worsened by the spread of footage online.

Colonel Ali Elhami, a local police commander, told the state-controlled IRNA news agency the women “committed an action against revolutionary norms and values by riding a motorcycle”.

“This manifested the utmost denunciation of religious norms by the two girls and caused serious torment and anxiety among city officials,” he said on Wednesday >>>