Why does the regime want to deploy street forces over the hijab?

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0:01 Hello. It is Wednesday, 30 Mehr 1404, October 22, 2025. The regime's street offensive, the reactivation of the "promotion of virtue and prevention of vice" patrols, and the talk of sending 80,000 enforcers of virtue and vice into the streets to harass people deserve attention, especially since the IRGC, at the level of the deputy commander-in-chief, Mr. Fadavi, and others, has raised this. We really have to ask: with all the troubles this regime has in various areas, such as the economy and inflation,

0:54 the war, the sanctions, water, gas, electricity, and the enormous dissatisfaction of the people, why would it do something like this, which carries the risk that protests starting in one corner could suddenly spread nationwide and engulf the whole country? To understand this move, especially by repressive bodies like the IRGC, we must consider that regimes of this kind, dictatorships in general and ideological totalitarian dictatorships in particular,

1:48 must keep the citizens of the country under constant pressure in three respects. The first is that they must keep people in fear: fear of the regime, fear of repression, executions, prison, arrest and so on. The second pillar is that they must keep people isolated, separated from one another, as separate cells, so they cannot gather or organize, not only in parties, groups and civil society, but even in charities and gatherings. They must break up people's gatherings and keep people one by one. And the third is that they must keep people hopeless, without hope for the future, without hope that

2:51 things will get better once the regime is gone. On the contrary, they constantly insinuate that if this regime goes, this will happen and that will happen, there will be chaos, everything will fall apart, you will have no security, and things will be worse than they are now. In fact, the survival of these regimes depends on keeping the people, the citizens of the country, frightened, isolated and hopeless, and out of all these conditions, to plant in people's heads those two well-known absolutes: that the regime is absolutely powerful and the people are absolutely weak. That is why, as Michel Foucault says, regimes of this kind must reproduce their power in order to survive,

3:47 through imposing clothing and dress, even making people wear uniforms if they could, and also through executions, the latter effectively saying, "Your life and death are in my hands." That is exactly why, alongside the street offensive and the renewed push to impose a certain kind of covering called hijab, executions have also intensified in the Islamic Republic. These two together show, more than anything else, the regime's fear of the people's opposition, of its shaky position, and its worry that the ground beneath its feet is loose and it will be overthrown. That is why it is trying to reproduce its power

4:41 in the direction of imposing fear, isolation and hopelessness. As for whether it will succeed, and whether this figure of 80,000 they cite is even true, in my view it is not; they do not have the capacity to supply 80,000 people and will mostly put on a street show. And whether they will succeed in frightening the women of our society and pushing them back, along with the men who defend women on this issue, is very much in doubt. But the regime will try, to the extent it can, to show off that its power still exists and that it has not yet fallen apart.

5:36 These events have reached a point where the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Guterres, has also objected to the repeated violations of human rights and the wave of executions in the Islamic Republic. In any case, to counter these methods of the regime, three things must be done. First, regarding the creation of fear, campaigns must be carried out on various issues, not one issue but in different dimensions, campaigns that at first carry no risk, using the existing capacities of the law and society as far as possible, and in practice

6:29 dispel people's fear through the periodic victories won against the regime. Regarding keeping people isolated, the remedy is gathering, in any form, whether a concert, a neighborhood association, a trade association, charity work, and so on. If it can't be official, then unofficial, but people must participate together in gatherings and in all kinds of assemblies: in dancing, in celebrations, in sports, in public sports, in parks, in passageways. In this way, by seeing one another's very breath, especially in places where people naturally

7:21 see each other, such as universities, schools or factories, they overcome the isolation and separation. And regarding making people hopeless, this one is the task of the society's elites: to show that with the departure of the Islamic Republic, the outlook for the future will be better than the present, and that the country's problems, although they seem very complex and large, have solutions, and good solutions at that. Of course, carrying out all three of these in their various dimensions requires planning, which in short means it requires a leadership that reviews these programs, designs the campaigns, follows them up,

8:18 implements them, and can advance the struggle in planned harmony. Now, the matter of Mr. Shamkhani, the video of whose daughter's wedding from 20 months ago has been released, and who himself insults the people with total impudence, and today told officials that, in short, we are all in one boat and we will all drown. Some answered him: your boat is full of oil, money, dollars, gas and so on, while the people's boat is full of poverty, high prices, inflation, unemployment, prison and so on. But this issue has taken another turn with the interviews given by Mr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, a professor at the University of Missouri in America. Dr.

9:14 Boroujerdi stated that Mr. Shamkhani was a member of the Mansouroun group, which on 2 Dey 1357 assassinated his father, Malek Mohammad Boroujerdi, one of the managers of the Ahvaz East oil company, its operations manager, who opposed the oil company strikes, and that Shamkhani himself took part in that assassination when he was 23 years old. Shamkhani, Mohsen Rezaei, Zolghadr, Rashid and others were members of a group called Mansouroun, which in 1356 planted a bomb in the Khansalar restaurant in Tehran and carried out assassinations, of which the assassination of Dr.

10:09 Boroujerdi's father is one. This group, which after the victory of the Islamic Revolution became one of the seven groups that formed the Organization of the Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution, was a suspicious group that, within the Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution, mainly through the activities of Mr. Zolghadr and Mr. Mohsen Rezaei, effectively staged a coup and broke up that organization. And when they entered IRGC intelligence, they gradually occupied the positions there too, pushed others aside, removed them, and in effect staged an internal coup in the IRGC as well and took its highest posts. In any case, this

11:03 group reached high positions, and Mr. Shamkhani is one of them, who still, in the form of mafia gangs of plunder and power, sit around the table of the country's mafia consortium. Meanwhile, it is reported that today the sound of heavy explosions was heard from Payam Airport in Karaj, an airport controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The explosions were such that one can no longer say a gas line exploded; what would the gas company even be doing at the airport? Much speculation says that Israel attacked this IRGC airport. Also, when the Tehran–Karaj metro stopped yesterday and people were made to get off the train, the passengers chanted

12:01 "Death to Khamenei." The video has also reached social media, and it shows how the people see the guardianship of the jurist, both conceptually and in concrete terms, as the main culprit behind all the country's problems: both the institution of the guardianship of the jurist and the constitution of the Islamic Republic, and Khamenei personally as the one who occupies the highest office under this constitution. And Bank Ayandeh, with a deficit of more than 450,000 billion tomans, is apparently finally going to be dissolved, a bank of which Mr. Ali Ansari is a founder, and which spent the bank's money building Iran Mall, said to be the largest mall in the Middle East, but in fact built out of the pockets

12:53 of the people. The soup got so salty that even the khan noticed, and finally, after a long time, everyone has raised their voice, and apparently they are finally going to close this blatant den of thieves. Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.