Iran coffee shop shut down for employing women

 Iran’s fundamentalist regime has closed down a Tehran coffee shop for operating with female employees on premises, the website of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported.

The owner of the Tehran coffee shop on in his Facebook page the image of a letter by the authorities explaining the reason for the closure of his shop. The letter cites “employment of women” as the reason for sealing the coffee shop.

In late November, it was reported that 26 coffee shops had been closed down in the Iranian capital.

Prior to this, on August 30, 2014, Khalil Helali, chief of Public Places Police pointed out that employment of women in coffee shops in Iran was forbidden.

“As a general rule it is forbidden to employ women for working in coffee shops,” he noted. “A woman who applies for a coffee shop license must have men as caretaker of the facility because based on the law, women are not allowed to go to coffee shops or work there even if they own the shop’s license.”