Deputy chief of the headquarters of “Promoting virtue and prohibiting vice” said 4,600 groups, each with 10 members, have been trained and organized to deliver “verbal warnings” to the public across Iran.
This entity carries out its activities under the direct supervision of Khamenei, the mullahs’ so-called supreme leader and is chaired by Ahmad Jannati, chair of the regime’s Guardian Council.
Mehdi Amini, a senior official in this body, said on 9 September that with the adoption of the law on “promoting virtue and prohibiting vice” preparations have been made to recruit and organize 10-man groups to deliver “verbal warnings” to the public.
This official said 4,600 such groups are to be organized across the country.
(State-run entekhabkhabar.ir website – September 11, 2015)