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Iran Shutting Down Morality Police,Official Says, After Months of Protests

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This is great news. Congrats to the Iranian people, women especially. I sure hope we can win out over the self-imposed morality police here in the United States.

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Iran Has Abolished Morality Police, an Official Suggests, After Months of Protests (Published 2022)

The move, which the government did not confirm, might be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police.
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The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.​
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Iran is abolishing the morality police, according to an announcement by the attorney general carried on state media, following months of protests set off by the death of a young woman who was being held by the force for supposedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress laws.​
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The decision, reported by state news outlets late Saturday night, appeared to be a major victory for feminists who have sought for years to dismantle the force and for the protest movement ignited by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, in September. The unrest has amounted to one of the biggest challenges in decades to Iran’s system of authoritarian clerical rule and the decision to scrap the morality police was the government’s first major concession to the protesters.​
 
poweRob said:
This is great news. Congrats to the Iranian people, women especially. I sure hope we can win out over the self-imposed morality police here in the United States.

www.nytimes.com

Iran Has Abolished Morality Police, an Official Suggests, After Months of Protests (Published 2022)

The move, which the government did not confirm, might be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.​
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Iran is abolishing the morality police, according to an announcement by the attorney general carried on state media, following months of protests set off by the death of a young woman who was being held by the force for supposedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress laws.​
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The decision, reported by state news outlets late Saturday night, appeared to be a major victory for feminists who have sought for years to dismantle the force and for the protest movement ignited by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, in September. The unrest has amounted to one of the biggest challenges in decades to Iran’s system of authoritarian clerical rule and the decision to scrap the morality police was the government’s first major concession to the protesters.​
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Sounds like they are confident the protests have been sufficiently repressed in order you feel comfortable making that concession.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Sounds like they are confident the protests have been sufficiently repressed in order you feel comfortable making that concession.
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They are getting worse. In conservative oil areas it has been the men doing the protests and the women joined them this week. You know when conservative traditionalists males and females both are against you and they live in and run the oil and gas industries in the South.
 
Only in any one of the muslim shit holes in Middle East would you find morality police.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Sounds like they are confident the protests have been sufficiently repressed in order you feel comfortable making that concession.
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According to the article, the "morality police" are disbanned but there is still work to do with regards to the laws still in place.
 
It is interesting both in this case and in China, that protests did lead to what appear to be completely inflexible regimes, bending.

To look at both examples extremely dispassionately…

It’s quite a tightrope.

On the one case bending to the protesters opens you up to further demands and concessions…

On the other hand, especially in the Iranian case, starting to execute protestors in custody carries massive risk in further inflaming the situation and bringing more elements of society against the regime.

Very interesting development.
 
poweRob said:
This is great news. Congrats to the Iranian people, women especially. I sure hope we can win out over the self-imposed morality police here in the United States.

www.nytimes.com

Iran Has Abolished Morality Police, an Official Suggests, After Months of Protests (Published 2022)

The move, which the government did not confirm, might be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.​
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Iran is abolishing the morality police, according to an announcement by the attorney general carried on state media, following months of protests set off by the death of a young woman who was being held by the force for supposedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress laws.​
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The decision, reported by state news outlets late Saturday night, appeared to be a major victory for feminists who have sought for years to dismantle the force and for the protest movement ignited by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, in September. The unrest has amounted to one of the biggest challenges in decades to Iran’s system of authoritarian clerical rule and the decision to scrap the morality police was the government’s first major concession to the protesters.​
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I'll believe that when I see it. More likely they will be operating on a lower profile basis.
 
poweRob said:
According to the article, the "morality police" are disbanned but there is still work to do with regards to the laws still in place.
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Still not a move Tehran makes if they aren’t absolutely sure the protests have been defanged though.
 
poweRob said:
This is great news. Congrats to the Iranian people, women especially. I sure hope we can win out over the self-imposed morality police here in the United States.
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What a despicably untrue and ugly thing to say. The US doesn't have anything even remotely like Iran's morality police. Not even the same planet.

But it is good that Iran will stop beating women in the street.
 
It is difficult to know for sure what Iran is doing, or will do, or if this really means what western news thinks it does.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Sounds like they are confident the protests have been sufficiently repressed in order you feel comfortable making that concession.
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A morality police is a show of power that no regime would willingly forgo.
 
gboisjo said:
Only in any one of the muslim shit holes in Middle East would you find morality police.
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We need more social enforcement of morality given the prevelance of sluttiness and abortion here
 
ecofarm said:
A morality police is a show of power that no regime would willingly forgo.
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Not really, as evidenced by the fact that most regimes don’t have them. It’s not like getting rid of the “morality police” hinders other repressive tactics.
 
Lycanthrope said:
Religious extremists should always be relegated to the margins of society.
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Ihe problem in Iran is the majority are religious extremists. Maybe that majority is a bit smaller than when I lived there a little over 50 yeats ago but it still exists.
 
It makes you wonder what will replace the 'morality' police because you can't get rid of 1000s of eager men without some blowback.
 
Sweden said:
Ihe problem in Iran is the majority are religious extremists. Maybe that majority is a bit smaller than when I lived there a little over 50 yeats ago but it still exists.
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Iran is indeed a tough example, and a cautionary tale for any civilized nation. Religion and state never mix well.
 
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