Iran in chaos: according to the Attorney General, the government is silent. The anger does not abate: three-day strikes against the regime have been announced
A concession to the demonstrators or simple statements that are not confirmed, perhaps with the intention of calming the revolt.
The statements by the Attorney General, the ultra-conservative Mohammad Javad Montazeri, which were picked up by the media around the world, raise doubts.
In response to a question on Saturday during a religious conference as to why the vice police – the same ones involved in the death of Mahsa Amini who started the protests 11 weeks ago – are no longer operational, prosecutors answered, according to reports from the semi-government agency Isna, commented: The vice squad has nothing to do with the judiciary and was abolished by its creator.
Words that have no official confirmation, especially not by the Ministry of the Interior. But that was not even disputed by the government.
Montazeri, on the other hand, rushed to clarify how the judiciary will continue to monitor behavior and stressed the importance of women’s clothing remaining.
Montazeri, still speaking in the holy city of Qom, also hinted that Iran’s parliament and the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution would consider the issue of the hijab, the Islamic veil made compulsory for women in public places under a 1983 law Montazeri did not provide any information in this case either.
Just 37% of Iranians agree with the hijab law, according to a poll by Fars News Agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, and it was the obligation to cover one’s head and hair that sparked the wave of protests that revealed a wider spread of resentment against the ayatollahs.
In this regard, the president, the ultra-conservative Ebrahim Raisi, who has imposed new restrictions on women’s clothing, pointed out during a conference in Tehran that the constitution has solid and immutable values and principles, but that there are methods of implementing them that can be flexible . A move according to many analysts to try to mollify sentiment among reformists and conservatives after the US and EU imposed sanctions on Iranian officials and government agencies, including the morality police, in recent months.
But it would be an opening of the facade, not enough to stop what activists define as a real revolution. If the regime has responded to the pressure of the protests, that could be a good thing, but we have to see how it works in practice and what Iranians think about it, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented, while Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani defined The decision, if confirmed, is an act of goodwill, but only a small step that does not change the situation of unacceptable repression.
And as the death toll mounts (200 according to official figures, 470 according to NGOs) and after four Iranians arrested in June over ties to Israel have been convicted and hanged, the Security Council announced that the security forces are taking each will face the new revolt with all their strength and without tolerance.
Words that come on the eve of a new mobilization that begins today for three days.
December 4, 2022 (change December 4, 2022 | 23:13)
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