Brigadier-General Ahmad Reza Radan is Deputy Commander of the Iranian police and as Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

's police chief, infamous for his crackdown on "unIslamic" hair and dress style.

Radan started his career as a member of Revolutionary Gourd During Iran-Iraq war.During the Islamic Revolution. He served as commander during the 1980-88 Iraqi-imposed war. He also held various posts in the Islamic Republic of Iran Police (IRIP), including as Police commander of Khorasan Razavi province.During The War he was injured more than 4 times but back to war-zone to defend his country against Iraqi forces.

Radan is well-known for his action on Islamic dress code, distribution of illegal Drug Dealing and controlling Gangs.
in His Commanding years he made 4 of major provinces of Iran Much Safer and secure.
He served as Police Commander Of Kordistan province, Sistan and baloochestan province, Khorasan province, and also the capital of Iran Tehran province.

Public security plan and Moralization Campaign

In 2007, Ahmad Reza Radan launched a "Public Security Plan": The police arrested dozens of “thugs” to increase public security. The arrested "thugs" are sometimes beaten on camera in front of neighborhood inhabitants, or forced to wear hanging watering cans used for lavatory ablutions around their necks. Among these "thugs" is Meysam Lotfi, a young Iranian who was arrested during Iran student riots in July 1999

Iran student riots, July 1999

Iranian Student Protests of July, 1999 were, before the 2009 Iranian election protests, the most widespread and violent public protests to occur in Iran since the early years of the Iranian Revolution.The protests began on July 8 with peaceful demonstrations in Tehran against the closure of the...

 and jailed for 6 months. According to his parents, he has never had any criminal history or history of illegal action, and has never been arrested or jailed before. He is currently listed for execution. His former lawyer was Abdolfattah Soltani

Abdolfattah Soltani

Abdolfattah Soltani is a well-known Iranian human rights lawyer, and spokesman for the Defenders of Human Rights Center, which was co-founded by the Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi. He has twice been incarcerated in the Islamic Republic of Iran for political offences in 2005 and 2009...

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See also

• History of fundamentalist Islam in Iran
  History of fundamentalist Islam in Iran
  The history of fundamentalist Islam in Iran covers the history of Islamic revivalism and the rise of political Islam in modern Iran. Today, there are basically three types of Islam in Iran: traditionalism, modernism, and a variety of forms of revivalism usually brought together as fundamentalism...
  
  
• 2007 Karaj Rock Concert incident
  2007 Karaj Rock Concert incident
  The 2007 Karaj Rock Concert incident refers to the crackdown of an Iranian rock concert in 2007 by police which led to the imprisonment of 230 Iranian musicians and fans....
  
  
• Saeed Mortazavi
  Saeed Mortazavi
  Saeed Murtazavi is a controversial Iranian jurist and former prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and Prosecutor General of Tehran, a position he has held from 2003 to 2009. He has been called as "butcher of the press" and "torturer of Tehran" by some observers...
  
  
• Zahra Bani Ameri
• Reza Zarei
  Reza Zarei
  Reza Zarei is a former chief of Tehran Police in charge of moralisation and enforcement of Islamic values.In March 2008, Zarei was found with six naked women in a house of prostitution in Tehran...