Signal from Iran |
Source: The Washington Post
Translation: Innovator
Iran Has the moral police, which supervises compliance with hijab rules in the Islamic Republic, temporarily suspended its activities? cancellation done?
Mohammad Jafar Muntaziri, the chief prosecutor of Iran, who held a press conference last weekend, said that the morality police had stopped working while answering one of the questions. This is the moral police service in the world media cancellation presented as being. Is it really so?
USAin the article published on this topic in the “Washington Post” newspaper, citing experts, it is stated that the mass rally held in Iran after the death of a young woman Mahsa Amini protest against the background of the actions of the moral police, the activity of the moral police is not really heard, the special patrol groups that roam the streets to monitor the observance of the hijab rules of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (they are called the moral police, in Iran itself this group is officially called the guidance patrol; the word guidance is used here in the sense of directing to the right behavior) are not visible .
It is noted that most likely Attorney General This is what he meant when he said that the moral police stopped working. Because this the police There is no official decision yet on the cancellation of the service (guidance patrols).
Sanam is the director of the Middle East and North Africa program of the “Chatham House” Center for International Relations, headquartered in London Lawyer also told “Washington Post” that Iran one should not rush to accept the statement of the general prosecutor as the abolition of the moral police.
“The Islamic regime often throws out some ideas and checks the society’s reaction,” said Sanam Lawyer hinted that Muhammad Jafar Muntaziri, more precisely, through him, the Islamic regime as a whole may try to test public opinion.
Sanam Lawyer He also said that the compulsory veiling of women remains in force in Iran, and even if the government decides to remove the Irshad patrols once and for all, this cannot be considered as the removal of the compulsory condition of the hijab.
According to the expert, the regime has other means of control, pressure, and threats, and a new structure can be created under a different government agency that performs the function of the moral police in a slightly different form, that is, monitors the observance of hijab rules.
Along with all this, the article of “Washington Post” emphasizes that the announcement of the Prosecutor General is a signal that he has suspended the activities of the morality police and that it is possible to revise the law defining hijab rules in the country: the regime can compromise and reform in the face of the people’s demand.
“Washington Post” reminds that there has not been such a signal at this level since the Mahsa Amini protests.
But will concessions and reforms satisfy the protesters and put an end to the protests?
“Do they really think that they are moral police?” cancellation Will it be of any use? Don’t they know that our target is the system as a whole?!” – According to information provided by “Washington Post”, one of the Iranians wrote on Twitter.
Mahsa Amin was arrested by the morality police on September 13 on charges of violating hijab rules. The young Kurdish woman died in the hospital three days later. Many believe he was a victim of physical abuse.
To the death of Mahsa Amini protest The actions started on September 18 and covered the whole country.
Attempts to suppress the protests have so far resulted in the death of more than 400 people and the arrest of 15,000 people.
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