Iranian women make their way along a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 26, 2016
IRANIAN police signalled a renewed crackdown today on women who don’t wear the hijab in public.
The Guidance Patrol, as the theocratic country’s morality police are formally known, had pulled back from arresting women for failing to observe the Islamist dress code following mass protests against the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September. Ms Amini had been hauled in for not wearing a hijab.
But police spokesman General Saeed Montazerolmahdi said today operations to notify women not complying with the code and detaining those who refused to do so would now resume.
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
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
