The Attorney General of Iran Mohammad Jafar Montazeri he proclaimed, speaking in the holy city Qomthat “the moral police has nothing to do with the judiciary and was abolished by the one who created it”. Ansa reported this, citing the Iranian news agency Isna, after the news of a possible one relaxed of the measures on the type of dress that have been imposed on women in the country for weeks they protest for her rights following the death in suspicious circumstances of Mahsa Amini, who lost her life after being arrested by the Morality Police for not wearing the Islamic veil in the manner considered proper.
The Arab media denied Montazeri’s announcement
The announcement of Mohammad Jafar Montazeri it was denied by the Arab media. Indeed, al Jazeera specified that there are still no “confirmations that the work of the patrol units officially responsible for ensuring “moral security” in society has actually been completed”. The hypothesis is also shared by Iran’s state television in Arabic Al-Alam, which – quoted by CNN – underlined that “no official of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said that the Guidance Patrol (Islamic religious police) has been shut down”. So far, the protests in Iran have suffered violent repressionand some protesters have been locked up and killed. you would be 200 – according to a report first published by Tehran – the people who lost their lives in the protests. Two strikes are planned for December 5 and 7, for which the regime will show “zero tolerance”, aided by possible Russian help in the repression.
The possible relaxation of the obligation to obscure
It is currently not clear what will happen in the country according to prosecutors. In the hours following the announcement, there were none confirmation from the Iranian authorities about the actual cessation of the police, let alone a possible relaxation of the repressive measures. “Parliament and the judiciary are considering whether the law needs to be changed,” Montazeri announced yesterday, but said results would be seen in “a week or two”. The President of the country Ebrahim Raisi had joined the choir and remembered that the Islamic law is an integral part of Iran’s constitution, but notes that “there are ways of interpreting the constitution that can be flexible». However, in July he had insisted on keeping it, urging the vice squad to take action to force women to wear it. The Islamic veil has been compulsory in Iran since 1983, 4 years after the Islamic revolution that changed the country. According to a confidential government report, only the 37% of Iranians agree that the veil is mandatory.
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