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Iran president vows to ensure morality police don’t ‘bother’ women

By AFP
September 17, 2024
Irans President Masoud Pezeshkian gestures as he speaks to reporters during his press conference in Tehran on September 16, 2024. — AFP
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian gestures as he speaks to reporters during his press conference in Tehran on September 16, 2024. — AFP 

TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed on Monday to ensure the morality police would no longer “bother” women, in remarks to the media on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini´s death in custody.

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 killed, including dozens of security personnel. 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 in Iran since he took office in July. Pezeshkian replaced the ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May.