The head of the Public Security Police of East Azerbaijan Province announced that 16 models have been arrested and 5 trade units were sealed off.

On 26th of January 2017, the state-run Fars News Agency reported that Mohammad Hassan Pasha stated:”the agents of the department that supervises public places in cooperation with the Iranian Cyber Police have identified and exterminated the modeling and fashion industries in Tabriz. Some 16 people who together promote the fashion of Western culture in cyberspace were identified, arrested and sent to the Judiciary officials after the case was filed.”

The police official said:” during the inspections of 15 clothing units, 10 units received notice and 5 of them got closed according to the Article 27 of the guild system law.”

Source: ncr-iran.org