The “morality police” came for me exactly 13 minutes into my lecture on gender and sexual politics in post-revolutionary Iran. Four sets of auditorium doors swung open simultaneously. In they came, boots pounding, weapons clanking. The Tehran lecture hall erupted in confusion as the komiteh, as the morality police are known, filled the room.
New video shows protests in Gohardasht last night in Alborz province. Despite heavy crackdown by the regime's repressive forces & over 200 martyrs+10000 protesters arrested, people pour into streets challenging the entirety of the religious fascism ruling Iran #IranProtests2022 pic.twitter.com/HFtlHyxi7J
— Hossein Abedini (@HoAbedini) September 27, 2022
