Iran: “A theocracy ready to do anything to survive”

After three months of repression as ferocious as it is ineffective, the Iranian authorities have begun to send ambiguous signals.

According to the Attorney General of the Islamic regime, the 1983 law making the wearing of the veil compulsory (under penalty of 72 lashes!) would be

and the morality police

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This first "setback" is however perceived as a decoy: hundreds of demonstrations have still taken place in recent days, the fruit of a call for a general strike launched on social networks.

The movement that threatens to destabilize theocracy has no leader or face - a condition for escaping those who hunt it down.

The 83 million Iranians, for whom this is not the first outburst of revolt, are informed that the autarkic system put in place by the mullahs for forty-three years cannot be reformed.

If he opened the floodgates of democracy he would be swept away.

He therefore fights a life-and-death struggle for his survival, denouncing a plot hatched from abroad, repressing his youth...

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