Here’s something Codepink, the “women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement,” might want to consider in their earnest fight to end the Western demonization of the Iranian regime:

Brig Hossien Sajedinia, Tehran’s police chief, said a national crackdown on opposition sympathisers would be extended to women who have been deemed to be violating the spirit of Islamic laws. He said: “The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehaviour by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values. In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins.

“We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them.”

In an age when a New York State assemblyman is getting traction on a proposed salt ban, the criminalization of tanning just seems like a piece of local legislation we’ll deal with sooner or later. Still, I think this is nanny-statism of a rather different order.

On Codepink’s  “Prevent War With Iran” page, the organization assures us that “Iranian women excel in the arts and sciences.” Pale Iranian women, I suppose.