Current Events > Iran has abolished their morality police.

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-abolishes-its-morality-police-after-months-of-mass-protests-report/ar-AA14SULP

I searched around for this and some sources say they merely suspended their morality police. I hope they get rid of them and the dumb laws they enforced.

hopefully this is a step in the right direction for the country.

so many have suffered and died because of the "morality" police

Wow. Honestly expected them to triple down on murdering the protestors first.

the government is panicking i think. They would never do this unless they fear being overthrown

dummy420 posted...

Wow. Honestly expected them to triple down on murdering the protestors first.

They're still doing that

That's not going to be enough. You can't undo decades of systemic oppression by getting rid of the arm that enforces it, especially when the leaders are the ones in charge of it. The leaders are still there.

I don't think the population will go back to how things were. Hopefully the theocratic regime has their names numbered with the current and coming generations.

Alucard188 posted...

That's not going to be enough. You can't undo decades of systemic oppression by getting rid of the arm that enforces it, especially when the leaders are the ones in charge of it. The leaders are still there.

This is true. Another issue is that there are hardliners who aren't even part of the government, but are used to getting their way and will enforce their ideology in what they view as vigilante justice.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

They're still doing that

Can't change all at once I guess

1337toothbrush posted...

I searched around for this and some sources say they merely suspended their morality police. I hope they get rid of them and the dumb laws they enforced.

Yeah, I don't see that happening after over 40 years of this, but the protest will hopefully spark real change, like overthrowing the theocracy...

Do you think Iran could become a more secular country, IF, and that's a big if by the way, the Iranian regime gets overthrown?

Like could the US & its allies do in Iran what they did in Iraq? That is, overthrow the regime and put in a leader who is more aligned with the West?

I know obviously the circumstances of why we went to Iraq and that it's completely different to events in Iran, I mean we invaded Iraq because of the belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and could launch them in 45 minutes, once they found no WMD's the plan then was to topple the Hussein regime.

The US & allies succeeded, Uday & Qusay were killed and then Saddam was executed, but with these killings it came at a cost with the rise of Islamic State causing instability in Iraq.

I'm not saying it would happen to Iran, but I think lessons have to be learned when you try to remove problematic rulers, there's always a consequence.

SgtBash posted...

Do you think Iran could become a more secular country, IF, and that's a big if by the way, the Iranian regime gets overthrown?

Like could the US & its allies do in Iran what they did in Iraq? That is, overthrow the regime and put in a leader who is more aligned with the West?

I know obviously the circumstances of why we went to Iraq and that it's completely different to events in Iran, I mean we invaded Iraq because of the belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and could launch them in 45 minutes, once they found no WMD's the plan then was to topple the Hussein regime.

The US & allies succeeded, Uday & Qusay were killed and then Saddam was executed, but with these killings it came at a cost with the rise of Islamic State causing instability in Iraq.

I'm not saying it would happen to Iran, but I think lessons have to be learned when you try to remove problematic rulers, there's always a consequence.

They already did that. That is a big part of what led to the current situation. U.S. needs to stay the fuck out of Iran

SgtBash posted...

Like could the US & its allies do in Iran what they did in Iraq? That is, overthrow the regime and put in a leader who is more aligned with the West?

So another 20+ years of war over something that doesnt affect us directly. Our economy is a wreck from our last 20+ year war which is still raging on. An entire generation of people was essentially told they would do quadruple the work for half the pay while the cost of living goes up at astronomic rates.

No, I think that any military intervention must come from the UN and the USA needs to not pay a cent towards it and we shouldnt sacrifice any soldiers lives. The UN uses us as their personal attack dog and our citizens cannot survive another economy-crushing war right now.

Alucard188 posted...

That's not going to be enough.

this.

Alucard188 posted...

That's not going to be enough. You can't undo decades of systemic oppression by getting rid of the arm that enforces it, especially when the leaders are the ones in charge of it. The leaders are still there.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63850656

"Just because the government has decided to dismantle morality police it doesn't mean the protests are ending," one Iranian woman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.

"Even the government saying the hijab is a personal choice is not enough. People know Iran has no future with this government in power. We will see more people from different factions of Iranian society, moderate and traditional, coming out in support of women to get more of their rights back."

Another woman said: "We, the protesters, don't care about no hijab no more. We've been going out without it for the past 70 days."

"A revolution is what we have. Hijab was the start of it and we don't want anything, anything less, but death for the dictator and a regime change."

IRL protesting works.

AloneIBreak posted...

IRL protesting works.

Kinda surprised but fuck yeah it can...so, what ever happened to BLM?

indica posted...

Kinda surprised but fuck yeah it can...so, what ever happened to BLM?

They didn't have this many numbers as the protests in Iran?

So, uh. This doesn't seem to have actually happened
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1599388724294361088
https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1599400064278925312

Now meet the ethics patrol

Morality police? Sounds like somewhere republicans would like to live.

Antifar posted...

So, uh. This doesn't seem to have actually happened
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1599388724294361088
https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1599400064278925312

US media continues to have some confusion about what abolishing the police means.

masterbarf posted...

Morality police? Sounds like somewhere republicans would like to live.

Or have in the US.

Antifar posted...

So, uh. This doesn't seem to have actually happened
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1599388724294361088
https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1599400064278925312

I'll take an actual news network over some random people on Twitter.

Revelation34 posted...

I'll take an actual news network over some random people on Twitter.

That second "random person on Twitter" is a reporter for The Independent

Intro2Logic posted...

That second "random person on Twitter" is a reporter for The Independent

He doesn't even have a non paid blue checkmark. Why should I take it serious?

Revelation34 posted...

He doesn't even have a non paid blue checkmark

Yes, he does.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/5/6/AAc3zuAAD80k.jpg

Here's a blue-checkmarked BBC reporter
https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1599432996649476098

Something this entrenched will not be abolished so easily, which is why I thought to search it up myself to confirm. As nice as it would be, it just doesn't work that way.