Tehran ∙ As the popular movement for women’s liberation spreads to more areas beyond colleges and universities, the Iranian government is taking steps to cool the movement. It is noted that the position of the Attorney General is that the religious police have no place in the justice system and the previous statement that the Senedd and the judiciary will discuss it and decide whether it is necessary to change the law is part of this.
Hundreds of people, including women, are still at the forefront of the protest, ready to face arrest and fight in the streets. At the same time, the protesters are not ready to end their strike just because the religious police is withdrawn. They reiterate that the goal is not to abolish the religious police system in name, but to change the system as a whole.
As part of the strike announced for three days from today, there is a widespread call through social media to stop financial transactions and also to participate in other sectors.
After the 1979 Islamic revolution, religious dress laws including head coverings were in place, but it was only in 2006 when Ahmadi Nijad became president that the religious police was created as a special unit to monitor women in public. Protests started when women’s freedom was constantly violated in public places because of the dress code. With the death of Mahsa Amini these demands took the nature of agitation. The situation in Iran is that all the women’s liberation activists who came up against the religious police at different times had to be arrested or deported.
In addition to not wearing the hijab properly, wearing tight clothes or clothes that reveal parts of the body can lead to the detention of the religious police. Reforms such as Ahmadi Nijad were undertaken by the current President Ibrahim Raisi which led to the current situation.
New nuclear power plant in Iran
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English summary: Iran hit by protest abolishes morality police
