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Mullah Ahmad Zargar, secretary of the suppressive \u201cPromotion of virtue and prevention of vice\u201d institute, announced that to speed up the processing of files related to those arrested by this institution, \u201cSpecial branches to process the cases of \u2018Promotion of virtue and prevention of vice\u2019 have been established in the justice departments throughout the country, as well as the Court of Justice and the Supreme Court.\u201d He added that \u201cDirectives for the formation of councils of \u2018Promotion of virtue and prevention of vice\u2019 in organizations, ministries, religious boards, and even mosques\u201d have been issued.<\/p>\n
The suppressive security forces issued a communiqu\u00e9 to emphasize on the need to \u201cadhere more to morality and hijab and avoid abnormalities\u201d during the month of Ramadan. \u201cAll drivers and passengers of vehicles, public or private, need to avoid showing breach of fasting, creating noise pollution, and acts contrary to religious observations,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n
On the pretense of \u201cpromotion of public security and tranquility\u201d during Ramadan, Qom\u2019s Prosecutor Mostafa Barzegar Ganji said: \u201cPlans have been devised [for the security forces] to inspect homes and numerous hideouts.\u201d Likewise, the prosecutor for Golestan Province noted that those who do not observe fasting will receive 74 lashes in public.<\/p>\n
Colonel Salehi, deputy commander of security forces in Khuzestan, announced the extensive presence of \u201ctangible and intangible police patrols and vehicles and foot patrols\u201d in \u201cthe city, passages, streets and around religious places\u201d and said: In the month of Ramadan \u201cto observe the sanctity of Ramadan, citizens ought to seriously avoid showing non-observance of fasting or dressing inappropriately in public places, guild units, recreational areas, business complexes, and public streets\u2026 drivers of public or private vehicles should also avoid any showing of non-observance of fasting, creating noise pollution, and abnormalities.\u201d The police of Hamadan also announced the formation of special patrols during Ramadan.<\/p>\n
As such, the Iranian regime has used the occasion of Ramadan to ramp up its recent repressive measures to confront the expansion of popular protests. The increasing trend of executions and arrests and lashing of hundreds of young men and women in different cities on the absurd charge of participating in festivities, inspection of 1025 guild units, sealing of 10 gardens and 32 coffee shops and teashops and restaurants in Fars Province, sealing of 19 clothes stores on the pretext of \u201cselling unconventional and non-permissive clothing\u201d in Tabriz, and sealing of 15 beauty parlors in Alborz province are among these measures.<\/p>\n
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
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