Iran’s attorney general said the Islamic Republic had disbanded the “morality police”, adding that it had nothing to do with justice since its creation.
Mohammad Jafar Montazeri made a point at Saturday’s meeting, emphasizing that. However, the judiciary continues to monitor people’s behavior, which suggests that hijab rules have not been abolished and only special patrols on the streets have been disbanded.
Earlier this week, Montazelli said parliament and the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution would release their views on the issue of compulsory hijabs within two weeks, suggesting that mandatory hijab regulations could be changed or revoked.
The recent protests in Iran were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, when she was arrested by the “morality police” for “improperly dressed”. During nationwide protests, women took off their mandatory hijabs and set fire to their headscarves in the streets as a sign of protest.
Western governments, including the UK, US and Canada, have added the Islamic Republic’s hijab law enforcement forces to their lists of sanctioned entities.
Many Iranian women now appear in public without their compulsory hijab, and regular police do not intervene. This indicates that the authorities either did not want to risk further conflict with the public, or at the same time decided it was impossible to deal with so many people undermining the rules. time.
First woman to defiantly remove her headscarf on Tehran’s main street in December 2017
The Morality Police was formally launched in the summer of 2006 during the presidency of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His Ahmadreza Radan, a former police chief in Tehran during this period, described the mission of the “morality police” as “to combat inappropriate hijabs.”
The demise of the controversial and violent institution was announced by the head of Iran’s judiciary.People on social media said the decision sparked protests because of basic demands, including ending the Islamic Republic. He says he will not try to persuade him to give up.
as they say Mandatory hijab itself It was an apartheid policy against women, and it still works. It also symbolizes broader demands for fundamental political and economic reforms such as a free and independent judicial system, free speech and free elections.
The Islamic Republic is far from accepting such demands. Because when officials are held accountable through democratic institutions, it means the end of the Islamic Republic.
in the meantime Man on social media While calling for the regime’s ouster in general, the demise of the moral police seems insufficient as a concession to protesters.
iranian woman fight against what the state imposes The hijab began in 1979, shortly after the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The first leader of the clerical regime, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, quickly announced that women would be allowed into the workplace only if they adhered to the compulsory hijab.
Immediately after his comments, thousands of Iranian women took to the streets to protest, but were later brutally suppressed by pro-regime forces forming the Revolutionary Guards, Basij militias, and the “morality police.” I was.
This has led to years of socio-economic marginalization of women who refused to enforce the compulsory hijab. has immigrated.
