The Eliot Spitzer of Tehran

Posted By Blake Hounshell Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 2:22 PM Share

Think Eliot Spitzer is having a bad week? Imagine what this guy is going through right now:

Tehran's police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, the Farda news website reported Wednesday.

Zarei stepped down from his post following the raid, the report said. According to another popular Iranian website, Gooya, the order to raid the brothel was given directly by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, chief of the judicial authorities.

Over the past year Zarei was in charge of enforcing the Islamic dress code on Iranian women with the purpose of "moralizing of the city."

(Hat tip: Elijah Zarwan)

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