{"id":331169,"date":"2025-05-04T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=331169"},"modified":"2025-05-04T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T16:09:10","slug":"irans-officials-urge-tight-control-of-minds-and-morals-to-quell-public-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/irans-officials-urge-tight-control-of-minds-and-morals-to-quell-public-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Officials Urge Tight Control of Minds and Morals to Quell Public Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smoke rises over Bandar Abbas\u2019s Shahid Rajaee port after a devastating explosion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In the wake of the deadly explosion<\/a> at the Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas, Iranian officials are publicly doubling down on ideological messaging and warnings about external influences, revealing mounting anxiety over societal discontent and the potential for youth-led unrest.<\/p>\n

In remarks broadcast on state TV, the regime\u2019s Education Minister Alireza Kazemi framed<\/a> the role of educators in overtly paternalistic and surveillance-like terms. \u201cSupervision is one of the highest duties of a parent and a teacher,\u201d he said. \u201cWhere is this student going? What is he doing? Who is he sitting with? When does he leave? When does he return? God forbid, has he gone astray?\u201d Kazemi went further, comparing teachers\u2019 responsibilities to shepherding: \u201cSupervision, in other words, is like shepherding. We must keep watch over all the children so that no one strays from this caravan of growth and progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kazemi described teachers as the front line of safeguarding the nation’s ideological and spiritual integrity, quoting Ruhollah Khomeini\u2019s words that \u201cthe key to a nation\u2019s salvation or downfall is in the hands of the cultural class.\u201d He warned teachers to be mindful of their role as models in every action, emphasizing their mission to raise not just educated individuals, but ideologically loyal and compliant citizens aligned with the values of the clerical dictatorship.<\/p>\n

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May 3\u2014Bandar Abbas, southern Iran
families and residents of Bandar Abbas protested the regime's deliberate delay in releasing casualty figures and identifying the missing after a deadly explosion on April 26, 2025.#IranProtests<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/57n7arBYw5<\/a><\/p>\n

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n