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harumph

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7. Recent news stories indicate the morality police have been less visible in Tehran of late.

Reply to Amaryllis (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:48 PM

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I don't support what is going on with this conflict - but do understand it is also useful to the regime for their own propaganda purposes to play down their fucked up fundamentalist tendencies at this time. The upper class resorts in Iran have traditionally been
exempt from the morality police - so that should tell you something about class and power in Iran. IOW, the morality police are
useful for a monied class to enable them to intimidate the major part of the less-monied population from seeking reforms.
Ask people outside of the capital about the morality police.

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