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A woman holds a placard with a picture of Iranian Mahsa Amini
THE British government has slapped sanctions on Iran’s morality police in response to the violent suppression of protests since the death of Mahsa Amini in custody.
The 22-year-old died last month after she was stopped in the street and detained by the morality police, who claimed her hijab was too loose.
Her death has sparked nationwide protests demanding an end to morality police patrols and the country’s mandatory hijab law.
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
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
