Iran’s “exciting stories” about the moral police are preoccupying the German press.
The announcement of the attorney general Mohamed Montaseri about disbanding the moral police in Iran it went around the world and made the front page of many newspapers, initially causing a positive impact. However, a climate of ambiguity followed immediately after his announcement with his words that the checks would still be carried out. In a second reading, therefore, German commentators attempt to put things in their place.
Games with the West
“Many in Iran assume that the announcement to abolish the morality police is a distraction, to send the message to Western states that the regime is very capable of reform, a game it has been playing with the West for many years,” notes Berlin’s Tageszeitung. . “The overwhelming response of the German Media is an indication that this game still works very well. The oppression of women and the inhumane ideology is the cornerstone of the regime. The Iranian leadership before 2005 and without the existence of the morality police oppressed with success to women and will continue to do so – with or without her.”
The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung follows the same logic in its comment. “For a long time the Iranian regime would not be able to withstand the protests even on an economic level, but a supposedly strong message, such as the disbanding of the hated moral police, is in principle nothing more than an attempt to correct its image,” the commentator estimates .” “As long as the arrests and executions in Iran continue unabated, the West should not fall for this mullahs’ PR trick. As long as Sharia is in place, women will be oppressed, tortured and murdered. So (Sharia) should be abolished and not only those who impose it”.
“All is well in Iran”
In his comment, via Twitter, the political scientist Abbas Abdi says that “abolishing the Moral Police was necessary, but not sufficient, as long as the law on compulsory clothing is not revised.” The headscarf has been compulsory for women since 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution took hold in Iran.
The Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, was summoned by Serbia to answer a question about the abolition of the Moral Police. His reaction: “Be assured that, in the framework of democracy and freedom prevailing in Iran, everything is going well…”
He claimed that “the US and a small group of Western countries are trying to intensify their pressure, to incite chaos and terrorism in Iran. One of their motives is that they want to force Iran into greater concessions in favor of America at the negotiating table (on Tehran’s nuclear program).”
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