Nearly three months of widespread protests across the country are beginning to weaken US resistance Islamic Republic of Iran. So much so that the Iranian Attorney General on Saturday Mohammad Jafar Montazerimade a historic announcement: “The moral police have nothing to do with the judiciary and were abolished by their creator”he said while Iran’s lawmakers are working to revise the tax law within two weeks clothing requirements. One of the symbols of the ayatollahs’ regime’s oppression, therefore, seems poised to fall under the blows of the street demonstrations erupted shortly after the death of Mahsa AminiThe 22-year-old was arrested by vice officers for poorly wearing the veil and then died in custody.
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The review group, Montazeri explains, met with Parliament’s culture commission on Wednesday “and will present results in a week or two.” Regardless of the action taken and the timing, it is a historical moment for post-revolutionary Iran: with the de facto abolished moral police and the revised dress code, one of the symbols of the Khomeinist takeover of power, which had reacted with a hard fist moral secularism imposed by time Pahlavi which had marginalized the more conservative part of the population.
Montazeri’s decision to make this important announcement is anything but secondary Qoma city that is among the most conservative in the country e heart of the Khomeinist revolution 1979. The regime’s election, concerned about the stability of the ayatollahs’ leadership, ending 17 years of vice police Gasht-e Ershadand could even lead to itAbolition of the veil requirement established in the country in 1983, just four years after the ayatollah-led revolution Ruhollah Khomeini. The conservative government of Ebrahim Raisi On Saturday, he hinted that there would be changes: Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations are constitutionally enshrined, the president explained, “but there are methods of implementing the constitution that they can be flexible“.
However, the turnaround will not be painless. The new government came to power, driven precisely by the more intransigent and traditionalist parts of the country, disappointed by the policy of dialogue, even with foreign countries, undertaken by its predecessor Hassan Rouhaniespecially after the decision of donald trump Withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and out Economic crisis in the country. Today, Raisi is accountable to his voters. Even if it should be remembered that the issue of the veil touches all souls of the Iranian people and politics: there are so-called reformist fringes, which remain strongly attached to women’s dress code obligations anyway, and equally conservative pockets, which are instead much more open for changes in a liberal sense on this issue.
Even if the regime decides to abolish the veil after doing the same with the vice squad, surely one need not expect a full one democratic turn in a country that has obsessive popular control and dissent one of its distinguishing features, exacerbated by delusions of encirclement and partially isolationism in the international area. While Montazeri announced the relaxation of the dress code, four people were executed for alleged espionage on behalf of Israelwhile on Saturday the climber’s house Elnaz Rekabiguilty of participating in International Sport Climbing Federation Asian Championships a Seoul without a veil, she was bulldozed in Tehran while she is under house arrest. A liberalization of morality does not necessarily imply a liberal turn: Egypt, Syria and teach other countries around.
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