Basij morality police: Acid attacking foot soldiers of the Iranian regime

None of nature’s most vicious have an instinct for barbarism and cruelty like that of the Iranian Basij - Basij Mostazafan (mobilisation of the oppressed) – the foot soldiers of the Iranian regime.

Acting out the role of morality police, they prowl the streets of Iran enforcing a code of conduct, mercilessly hunting down any women who disobey the rules on decency set down by the country’s leading clerics, attacking those who do in the most horrendous way.

In response to women breaking these laws, which have been enforced in Iran since the 1979 revolution, whether a women is inappropriately veiled and not wearing long loose fitting clothes such as a chador in public, or is seen to be wearing lipstick, or it is just a case of a young teenage girl seen to be “fraternizing” with a lad in public, such violations are all classed by the Iranian regime’s hardliners as a sin in the spirit, or committing “indecent” behavior.

So for the unfortunate women, caught contravening these draconian laws, they will either end up having acid thrown in their face by a member of the morality squad, or they will be mercilessly beaten with clubs in a show of instant justice, and in some cases, the attackers themselves are women.

While many who break these morality laws end up in prison, others are often tortured, gang-raped by the guards, or those that are unlucky enough, end up facing the hangman’s noose. Also, it matters not the age of the victim, from teenager to elderly women; all are likely to suffer from the barbaric act of an acid attack."

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