Iranian fans watch their national soccer team play against the United States in Qatar's World Cup, on a giant screen at a cultural centre in Tehran, Iran, early Wednesday, November 30, 2022
IRAN’s theocratic regime said today that its much-criticised morality police force has been dissolved.
The announcement by Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri comes after more than two months of protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.
The young Kurdish woman was arrested for violating the country’s strict female dress code and died in custody on September 16, three days after her arrest in Tehran.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran
