Under the pretext of promoting virtue and preventing vice, the mullahs are attempting to increase the systematic suppression to combat growing popular uprisings. However, the majority of Iranian people hate the regime.
Formation of the new ministry comes at the time when there are dozens of other suppressive apparatus operating secretly or in public such as Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), paramilitary Bassij, Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the State Security Forces (SSF). Nevertheless, all such suppressive security forces have not been able to suppress the increasing popular dissent by workers, students, and youths.
Secretariat of National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 10, 2007