According to a media report, after Iran’s attorney general, another official spoke of stopping the deputy squad’s activities. Observers strongly doubt whether Iran is really hiring the morale police
“Movement police operations have been stopped by order of the prosecutor’s office,” said Ali Chanmohammadi, spokesman for the Center for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, on Tuesday, as reported by the Entekhab news portal.
The morality police enforced the Virtue Center regulations in the past. The actions of the moral police were the trigger for protests critical of the system in the country that have lasted more than two months. In mid-September, Islamic moral guardians arrested 22-year-old Mahsa Amini because a few strands of hair had come out of her headscarf. Amini died a few days later in the custody of the deputy squadron.
The headquarters spokesman said other “forms of hijab observance” – namely the Islamic dress code for women – were expected to be decided soon.
skepticism about dissolution
Iran’s attorney general said on Sunday that the vice police force has been abolished. The statement was initially met with skepticism by many protesters and critics of the political leadership. They continue to call for the abolition of the mandatory veil in the country. Women in Iran fear that the vice squad’s control activities could simply be taken over by other security forces once they are disbanded. Activists also see the statements about the moral police as a “diversionary tactic” to calm the tense situation in the country.
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