Berliner Boersenzeitung - Iran president vows to ensure morality police don't 'bother' women

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Iran president vows to ensure morality police don't 'bother' women
Iran president vows to ensure morality police don't 'bother' women / Photo: ATTA KENARE - AFP

Iran president vows to ensure morality police don't 'bother' women

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed Monday to ensure the morality police will no longer "bother" women, in remarks to the media on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death in custody.

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Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died in police custody on September 16, 2022, days after the morality police arrested her in Tehran for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.

Her death triggered months-long protests nationwide, with hundreds of people, including dozens of security personnel, killed. Thousands of demonstrators were arrested.

"The morality police were not supposed to confront (women). I will follow up so they don't bother" them, Pezeshkian said during his first press conference since he took office in July.

Pezeshkian replaced the ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May.

During election campaigning, he had vowed to "fully" oppose police patrols enforcing the mandatory hijab headscarf, as well as easing long-standing internet restrictions.

Iran has over the years tightly controlled internet use, restricting popular social media platforms such as Facebook and X.

Harsher curbs were enforced following 2019 protests against fuel price hikes and during the demonstrations triggered by Amini's death.

On Monday, Pezeshkian said his government was working to ease restrictions online, especially on social media.

- Relations with the West -

At his press conference, Pezeshkian briefly touched on other topics including Iran's fraught relations with the United States and the 2015 nuclear deal.

"We do not want to fight with America if it respects our rights," he said.

"It is not us who are hostile (to the Americans). We have not built military bases around their country."

Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since 1980, the year after the Islamic Revolution that toppled its Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

A landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers granted Iran sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear programme.

But the deal quickly collapsed and tensions reignited after the United States unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran the following year.

Iran has since suspended its compliance with caps on nuclear activities.

"We are not seeking nuclear weapons; we have respected the framework of the nuclear agreement," Pezeshkian said.

"They (the United States) broke the agreement and forced us to do something."

Pezeshkian also spoke about newly imposed sanctions.

Last week Britain, France and Germany announced punitive measures targeting Iranian air transport, accusing it of delivering ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.

Iran has repeatedly denied sending weapons to Russia for use in the war, and vowed to respond to the latest in a long string of Western sanctions.

- 'Need to disarm Israel' -

Pezeshkian said Iran "has not given" Russia any weapons.

"It is possible that Iran and Russia had military cooperation in the past... because there was no ban at the time," he said.

"What I can say with certainty is that since our arrival, we have not given them anything so that (the West) boycotts us."

He also insisted on Iran's right to maintain its missile programme, which has drawn Western criticism, as a deterrent against its arch-foe Israel.

"They (the West) want us not to have missiles, that is fine, but you need to disarm Israel first," he said, adding that otherwise "they can drop bombs on us whenever they want, like in Gaza".

Israel launched a relentless campaign against the Palestinian militant group Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip, after its October 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Militants also seized 251 hostages, 97 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead.

Israel's offensive has so far killed at least 41,226 people in Gaza, according to Gaza's health ministry, which does not provide a breakdown of civilian and militant deaths.

Tehran hailed Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel but denied any involvement.

Iran does not recognise Israel, and has made support for the Palestinian cause a centrepiece of its foreign policy since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

(A.Lehmann--BBZ)