Unrest in Iran is on the rise. Casualties among the protesters

International publications have reported that Iranian women have been detained for such “conversations” throughout the country for a month now. President Ibrahim Raisi on August 15 signed a decree banning secular women’s clothing and imposing harsher penalties for violating the strict code, even online. Women have been arrested across the country after July 12 was declared a national “hijab and chastity day”.

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After the monarch was overthrown in the country in 1979 and a revolution took place, the state became an Islamic republic. By law, every woman must wear a hijab.

“There are special buses, they drive through the city, they control how women are dressed. If a woman is not dressed according to the norms, she is taken on a bus, taken to a special institution, lectured, her parents or husband are called, her clothes are cut with scissors. If a frequent violation, then she receives corporal punishment, a lash or pays a fine. I myself in Iran several times received remarks from women. There is a category for whom this is sacred, the norm of life. There are young people and other girls who want to dress like Europeans, in this respect they observe the hijab, but in their own way. A narrow coat, headscarves on top,” explains the head of the Eastern Cultural Center, Associate Professor at the Russian State Humanitarian University Lana Ravandi-Fadai.

There are many such girls, especially in the capital. Most likely, the deceased changed her hijab to a headscarf, counting on a secular attitude to this rule in Tehran. The Iranian President ordered an investigation into the circumstances of Amini’s death. The police officers involved in the case were detained and the head of the Iranian morality police was removed from office.

Meanwhile, political scientist Sergey Markov put forward a rather exotic version of these events: “In Iran, many believe that the protests were organized by the United States because Iran began to massively supply drones to Russia for use in hostilities in Ukraine…”

This happens regularly in Iran, but the terror machine always wins.

The publicist Ostap Karmody urged opposition supporters not to be inspired by these events: “But do not rejoice ahead of time, this has already happened five times since the beginning of the century, and the authorities managed to hold on each time …”

Not too optimistic in his assessment of the Iranian events and network analyst Anatoly Nesmiyan: “President Ahmadinejad came to power in the middle of the 2000s. Technically, in Iran, the president is lower in the hierarchy than the Rahbar spiritual leader, but he still has certain administrative and even political powers of his own. Ahmadinejad was faced with a choice: either start opening up Iran, removing the most advanced principles based on the very mossy clerical dogmas of the deep Middle Ages, or, on the contrary, close the country even more and squeeze out an additional resource from the population for development and overcoming the existing distortions.

Ahmadinejad chose the latter. And in order to ensure a stricter regime of management and centralization of economic development, he granted the rights of an economic entity to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, transferring part of the export capacities to the IRGC.

During the reign of Ahmadinejad, the IRGC has become the largest owner, subjugating almost all the country’s export industries. (…) Everywhere the IRGC went, all internal conflicts were opened up and turned into one big catastrophe. On which the IRGC made money, intercepting funding from the Iranian budget for the continuation of endless wars.

Protests in solidarity and support for the Iranians are also taking place in Europe. In Germany, not only people from the Middle East – Kurdish and Iranian women – but also German ones took part in the demonstration.