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Iran: Anger against the veil inflames youth

2022-09-20T16:38:42.187Z


STORY – The death of Mahsa Amini, repressed by the morality police, led to a wave of protests against the wearing of the hijab.


Has the ultra-conservative power shot itself in the foot?

From a large part of the press to the former President of the Islamic Republic, Mohammad Khatami, passing through Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Speaker of Parliament, and even a Grand Ayatollah and certain deputies, the condemnations, in Iran itself , have multiplied, a few days after the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, repressed, according to many sources, by the “

morals police

” for having left her veil in the capital.

Since then, demonstrations, admittedly bringing together a limited number of people, have spread outside Kurdistan, his region of origin in the North West.

“The religious police do not achieve any results, except to cause damage to the country

,” protested MP Jalal Rashidi Koochi on Tuesday.

The main problem,

he regrets,

is that some people do not want to see the truth

”: that is to say a thirst for freedom among young people, especially that the ultra-conservative power, since the election…

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Source: lefigaro

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