Iran: Don't Worry. Our Morality Police Won't 'Bother' Women

<![CDATA[Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is clearly a man of the people and he is quite concerned over the rights of women in his country. Putting sarcasm aside for the moment, that level of concern appears to have ramped up considerably this week after the United Nations issued a warning saying that women in Iran are still being violently punished for failing to properly adhere to the nation's strict Islamic dress code for females. The UN warned that women were still being beaten in public and imprisoned. The warning was issued two years after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was beaten to death while in the custody of the nation's "morality police." But Pezeshkian insists that this is all nonsense and propaganda. His morality police would never do such a thing. (Perish the thought.) Under his leadership, the morality police will "no longer bother women" over their failure to adhere to the code. (BBC)]]>