Protest-hit Iran has the big news with its abolishing of ‘morality police.’ Known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad the ‘morality police’ is also known as the “Guidance Patrol” which once was established by the hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sixteen years ago in the year 2006.
Condemning latest anti-government protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, people of Iran took part in a pro-government rally lately in Tajrish square north of Tehran. After this rally on October 5, 2022, Iran felt compelled to scrap its ‘morality police’. Doing so after more than two months of protests after the arrest of Mahsa Amini, Iran seems to be looking for peace.
It took more than two months of protests to reach to its target. The arrest of Mahsa Amini followed by her allegedly violating the country’s strict female dress code, triggered the protest which went on crossing the border across the globe. Now the Iranian media says this is the victory of human rights.
So far the women-led protests did not accept defeat even after being labelled “riots” by the authorities. Now the protests have swept Iran since the custody death of the twenty two year old Iranian of Kurdish origin on September 16. Mahasa Amini died three days after her arrest by the morality police in the capital, Tehran.
After the abolition of the Morality police, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was heard saying, – “Morality police and judiciary have no connection at all.”
It was a gathering of a religious conference in Tehran where one of the participants asked the Attorney this question, -“why the morality police were being shut down?”
His comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked
Under the hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rule, the morality policing was established for for so-called “spread the culture of modesty and hijab”, as the mandatory women head covering.
