Iran: The Iranian people insult and humiliate the Mullahs

The popular uprisings in Iran against the Mullahs’ government reached their peak amid a state of economic, social and political collapse, in addition to the repression against Iranians, which was evident in the citizens’ reactions towards clerics and public figures.

Insults

In recent days, videos have circulated on social media of Iranian citizens’ dealings with a number of Iranian clerics, while Mohammad Reza Zaeri, a fundamentalist cleric, has acknowledged an increase in public insults against him in recent days.

On Instagram, Zaeri wrote that he had been spat once in the past ten days, and severely humiliated two or three times, adding that the taxi driver also dropped it, and said: “I don’t allow mullahs to ride.”

Addressing those who must understand and teach, Zaeri wrote: Are they aware of this scale of hatred and growing hatred, and the embarrassment we have been warned about over the past years?. Zaeri answered his question, approaching: “Of course not”.

The clergy are outcasts

The cleric’s confession was not the first of its kind. A few days ago, Mohammed Taqi Fazıl Meybodi, a member of the Council of Scholars and Teachers in the Scientific Ministry, said: “Many clerics go to the markets or buy from shops, in civilian clothes and not in religious clothes, because people humiliate and harass them”.

“Unfortunately, our country has moved in an undesirable direction for the general public and they are dissatisfied with the current situation in society, and they put these matters on the shoulders of the clerics”, Taqi Fazıl told Humdly newspaper.

The clash of citizens and clerics

In addition, social media have been circulating in recent weeks, including videos of some clerics attacking or criticizing some citizens.

Some of these videos show angry reactions from some people against a clerics, while others show a woman running over a cleric’s turban after he advised her to wear the hijab. Her arrest was later announced.

Reports have surfaced in recent years of high incidents of attacks on clerics, with reports indicating that such incidents and attacks occurred between 2017 and 2019, resulting in the death of at least four clerics.