Tehran’s Morality Police Unveil Misogynistic Plan to Deploy 80,000 “Virtue Enforcers”
In a new display of moral policing, Tehran’s so-called “Virtue Headquarters” has announced plans to mobilize tens of thousands of enforcers to tighten control over women and the internet.
As Iranian society simmers with anger and discontent, and the regime faces mounting internal and external crises, state-run media reported on October 17 that Rouhollah Momen-Nasab, secretary of Tehran’s so-called “Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” announced sweeping new enforcement plans.
“The main priority of the headquarters is to train, organize, and deploy more than 80,000 ‘enforcers of virtue’ and 4,575 instructors and judicial officers,” he declared. “By activating these 80,000 trained forces, we can bring about a major transformation in the province.”
He further boasted that with the establishment of a new “Situation Room for Chastity and Hijab,” the authorities would “monitor and analyze the enemy’s actions and design cultural, media, and legal countermeasures.”
Momen-Nasab also warned that “cyberspace must not become a safe haven for lawbreakers.” He said the headquarters, working with the Prosecutor’s Office and the Cyber Police (FATA), would introduce “stricter and faster monitoring mechanisms” and process reports from “public informants” for prosecution.
(Aftab News and Asr Iran, October 17, 2025)
Yet such repressive schemes, laden with hollow statistics and slogans, are relics of the past. Rather than easing the regime’s crises, they only intensify the anger of Iran’s women and youth toward this deeply misogynistic system.
Even some regime insiders have mocked the plan, noting that while authorities are busy setting up a “Situation Room for Chastity and Hijab,” there is no sign of a “Situation Room for the Economy” or “for Education.” As they put it sarcastically, the regime seems more focused on fueling unrest than solving the nation’s real problems.
