The City Islamic Council in Qom announced that it had put forward a plan to segregate four of the citys parks.
In August, the National Womens Council announced that a sex-segregated park was under development in the north-eastern city of Mashad.
The development of sex-segregated parks was given a big boost after hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guards commander, became Irans president. Prior to his rise to the presidency, Ahmadinejad was the Mayor of Tehran. One of his first decisions in the city hall was to order gender segregation on elevators.
