Professor of Religion and Global Security, RCAST Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. Islam & the Middle East studies.
(Isfahan contact, cont’d):
I think that the regime decides to withdraw [them—the morality police].
These days, the police also see women without hijab, but they do nothing. It seems they are ordered not to create new challenges.
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He says: Today, the protests started in the morning. Mobile internet was cut off at noon.
It is interesting to know that the morality police, who killed Mahsa Amini, have been [sequestered] for almost seven days. We don’t see any morality police. 2/
Some interesting observations from an Iranian contact in Isfahan, Iran today. He says that the morality police have not been seen there for seven days, and he suspects that the authorities have decided to withdraw them.