IRANIAN police have warned barbers against offering western-style haircuts or plucking the eyebrows of male customers, an Iranian newspaper has reported.
The report, confirmed by an Iranian news agency, appeared to be another sign of a crackdown on clothing and other fashion deemed to be against Islamic values.
"Western hairstyles... have been banned," the newspaper Etemad said.
The move came a week after police launched a crackdown against the growing numbers of young women testing the limits of the law with shorter, brighter and skimpier clothing ahead of the summer months.
Under Iran's Islamic Sharia law, women must cover their hair and wear long, loose- fitting clothes to disguise their figures. Violators can receive lashes, fines and prison.
In a statement, police said: "Barber shops have been warned to avoid using Western hairstyles and doing men's eyebrows."
In recent years, young men in Iran have started paying more attention to the way they look and dress. Spiked up hair is known as the khorusi (rooster) style and some men also use make-up.
Several men's hairdressers in Tehran offer cuts in the style of Hollywood stars and western celebrities. Clients can also have their eyebrows plucked.
Mohammad Eftekharifard, the head of the barbers' union, said police had instructed the union to "exercise specific regulations in barber shops that work under its supervision".
Barbers who do not adhere to the rules may be closed for a month and lose operating permits, Etemad quoted him as saying.
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