Monday, May 2, 2016

Iran: “sensible” security threats make “insensible” patrols a necessity



The atrocity of thousands of spies and repressive agents dispatched by the mullahs’ regime in Iran under the pretext of ‘insensible’ patrols, used to impose a climate of fear and crackdown, has reached such an embarrassing height that senior Iranian regime officials are pointing fingers and blaming each other for its dire consequences. As this plan was announced by Tehran police chief Sajedinia, Iran’s judiciary chief came to the scene saying,”Mal-veiling and having no hijab at all is considered a crime.


Iran’s public prosecutor in Tehran ordered the police to take action against drivers not abiding by hijab regulations.
“The keyword of social security lies in taking action against mal-veiling,” said Mullah Alamalholda, the representative of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Of course, oppression under the pretext of mal-veiling in Iran is nothing new. What is new is the condition these new repressive measures are being implemented, meaning the situation following the nuclear agreement sealed with the P5+1 known as the JCPOA. The bloc of former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani and current President Hassan Rouhani are extremely concerned about the public’s reaction in this regard, especially women and the youth.
“Anyone is imposing regulations and new laws as they wish. One seeks to control the people covertly, another comes seeking to control the people overtly,” Mullah Hassan Rouhani said.
“The announcement of this plan has raised a wave of concerns and a sense of insecurity amongst the society and families… there are concerns that this plan will actually cause more problems in the future,” Rouhani’s deputy added.
“This plan must be analyzed in the Supreme National Security Council, and if there is an improper interpretation in this regard… we will not be successful and the entire scenario will actually backlash,” said Iranian Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli.

Interesting is the fact that the regime’s media outlets have cited the mullahs and their fatwas to describe such a plan as haram, or forbidden. On the other hand they raise legal arguments that such a plan is against the regime’s own laws. The entire issue has reached a point that Mullah Ahmad Khatami, a senior official in the so-called Assembly of Experts said recently, “This cultural field is going wild, especially on social media, websites, foreign networks, visual media, the radio, text media, the cinema, books. These are the weapons of ‘soft war’… the leader had warned back in 1991 of a cultural attack and a cultural ‘NATO’. However, what is actually quite tangible is the issue of mal-veiling, which leads to audacity… we are not saying every boy and girl is against the revolution, the Lucifer may have deceived them, they may be caught off-guard. Some of these individuals that we see, their appearance may not fit our system’s framework, yet deep down they are fond of the establishment and Islamic revolution… The struggle against mal-veiling should be through kind measures and based on the law.” (State radio in Iran – 29 April 2016)

The truth is that fear of social consequences has forced Iran’s crackdown apparatus to a point that its Supreme National Security Council has to evaluate such a plan, and a criminal mullah such as Ahmad Khatami boasts of “kind measures based on the law” by state agents. This is an attempt to lure even mal-veiled women to the regime’s own reactionary-minded camp. This is described as desperate measures by the mullahs’ regime.

It is worth noting that the mullahs’ regime, through its Friday prayer speeches, has time and again described the issue of mal-veiled women in Iran being a complete insult to the mullahs’ system and considering this matter as a security concern. Certainly, the misogynist mullahs’ regime will never be capable of forgoing such repressive measures, and now one must see how the brave youths of Iran will stand against this new form of oppression, and realize the security threats forecasted by the mullahs’ senior officials. 

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