There is no official confirmation from the Iranian government, but there is a statement from the Attorney General, the ultra-conservative Mohammad Javad Montazeri picked up by the media around the world. “The moral police has nothing to do with the judiciary, and it was abolished by whoever created it,” he said on Saturday.
There were two immediate and opposite readings: one concession real after the demonstrations of the last few months or one fake opening with the aim of stopping the protests, while still maintaining the repression in different forms. The moral police are the ones who arrested, because she didn’t wear the veil correctly, Mahsa Amini, whose death sparked protests more than two months ago. According to official sources, there have been 200 deaths, the NGOs count more than double that. New demonstrations are underway.
The declarations reported by the semi-governmental agency Isna have not found confirmation in Tehran’s Interior Ministry. However, they have not even been denied. Montazeri however specified that the judiciary will continue to supervise the behaviors and on women’s clothing which remains important.
The prosecutor said Iran’s parliament and the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution would be looking into it the question of the hijab, the Islamic veil. He did not provide details and this led to think of a facade opening as opponents of the regime believe even if a poll says that only 37% of Iranians are in favor of the obligation to wear the veil.
“We need to see how it works in practice and what Iranians think about it,” US Secretary of State Antony commented Blinken. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani spoke of “an act of good will but only a small step that does not change the situation of unacceptable repression”.
In the past, the moral police changed its name while continuing to exist in Iran. In Afghanistan, the Taliban created a ministry for the promotion of virtue and the suppression of vice. The concept comes from the hisbah that is in the Koran: appreciating what is right and despising what is wrong to make yourself and the world better. It has existed since the time of Khomeini, in 1997 fines and whippings were introduced by law for those who did not wear the veil well. There Gasht Ershad, the current moral police, was born in 2006 with President Ahmadinejad. It may change its name, but it will remain with new forms of repression.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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