Civil rights activist Mehrangiz Kaar has written an article for IranWire in which he warned the police commander against setting the country on fire by obeying the orders of a “stubborn” leader. Kaar said that it is "forbidden to obey" a leader who ignores reality and warned that Iranian society is a “powder keg waiting to be ignited.” Kaar accused the police commander of being under the influence of an “inflexible” man who funds the police forces’ “wealth, rent and status” with the money of “the very women and their supporters they are oppressing.”
