During his first press conference, the new Iranian president Massoud Pezeshkian, who has opted for a firm tone on the external front, has however shown signs of openness towards his electorate, particularly with regard to the veil and the censorship of social networks.
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With our correspondent in Tehran, Siavosh Ghazi
President Pezeshkian has made it clear that he intends to ease the pressure on women or young people. Responding to a journalist who said she had to take small alleys to escape the morality police, Massoud Pezeshkiansaid he had asked the police to stop targeting women who wear the wrong veil: ” The morality police should no longer intervene against women who wear veils improperly. I will tell them again. Even the country’s attorney general has stated that the police have no right to intervene against women who wear veils improperly. “.
The statement came as videos have emerged in recent weeks showing police officers violently arresting poorly veiled young women.
In another sign of openness, he said that a commission had been set up to review the ban on social networks such as Instagram, Twitter and Telegram, as he had promised during the election campaign.
Similarly, his Minister of Higher Education announced that a task force had been set up to reinstate professors or students banned from universities in the last two years for their support for the protest movement following the death of Mahsa Amini.
Finally, the president announced that the issue of house arrest of one of the opposition leaders, Mehdi Karoubi, had been resolved and that he is working on the fate of the other leader, Mir Hossein Moussavi.
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