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On the front page of the press, the reactions to the announcement, this weekend, of Iranian justice, of the abolition of the morality police, responsible for the arrest of Mahsa Amini, whose death triggered the movement ongoing dispute.

How to interpret this announcement by the Iranian Attorney General, which the regime has still not confirmed, for the moment?

Not a word, in any case, of this announcement, from the side of the official press, in particular the

, which returns to the front page on the declaration, three days ago, of the British Prime Minister on the strengthening of the fight against illegal protests - a statement presented by the official daily as an invitation to "crack down on protesters at a time when the UK is allowing itself to criticize the way the Iranian police have responded to recent protests in Iran".

Abroad, on the other hand, the announcement of a possible abolition of the Iranian morality police is much commented on.

The Lebanese newspaper

speaks of a "symbolic victory for the demonstrators in Iran", while evoking an announcement "to be taken with a grain of salt", insofar as only the Supreme Council for the Cultural Revolution has the power to dissolve this body.

In any case, this possible decision will not be enough to calm the protest, according to the Israeli daily

, which specifies that the announcement of the general prosecutor comes when several calls for a general strike have been launched for three days. , counting from today.

For the Swiss newspaper

, which sees the regime "at bay, forced to let go of the ballast", "the demands of Iranian society go (in any case) well beyond (this measure) apparently generous (and) are now aimed at the establishment of 'a democratic, open and modern society and the abolition of laws that discriminate against women'.

On the front page, also, the start of a delicate week for the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, suspected of corruption.

"The fate of Ramaphosa in the balance":

recalls that the head of state has been implicated since a complaint was filed last June, accusing him of having tried to stifle a burglary that occurred at his home two years earlier - a burglary that he had declared neither to the police nor to the tax authorities, and for good reason: the criminals would have taken away 580,000 dollars in cash, hidden under the cushions of a sofa.

A meeting of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa's party, is scheduled for today to discuss his fate, and the question is whether the president will find a majority to support him.

According to

, the party in power since the end of apartheid would be "deeply divided", and several ANC elected officials have already announced their intention to vote against him tomorrow in parliament, where a dismissal procedure could be launched.

, another South African daily, confirms that Ramaphosa will have to face today "his enemies within the ANC" - starting with former President Thabo Mbeki.

The newspaper even claims that the president now has “no place left to hide”.

A word, too, of these accusations from the Kurdish guerrillas of the PKK, which affirms that the Turkish army uses chemical weapons in northern Iraq.

On the front page of

, this morning, a shock image: a screenshot of a video broadcast by ANF News, showing fighters victims, according to the Kurdish television channel, of an attack with chemical weapons - images deemed "disturbing" by Huma, which however believes that "only research under the aegis of the UN or the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, can confirm or invalidate" the PKK's allegations.

The newspaper explains that the most logical would be for a request in this direction to be made by Iraq, but that in the absence of a stable government, this option seems difficult;

the other option being for another State, France for example, to request the setting up of a verification mission.

Also to be noted in the French press, the concerns, this time, of

, on the call for citizen mobilization of 50,000 additional volunteers to support the armed forces in the fight against terrorism.

A call to which 90,000 volunteers would have responded, according to Libé, who is alarmed by possible "overflows".

The Burkinabe Movement for Human and Peoples' Rights has already reported, in the past, numerous cases of executions, kidnappings or torture committed by these "volunteers for the defense of the homeland", since 2020, generally against the Fulani, who form the "majority but not exclusive group of jihadist troops".

The French dailies are of course largely on the qualification, yesterday, of the Blues for the quarter-finals of the Football World Cup.

By beating Poland 3 to 1, the Blues already provide a "beginning of intoxication" to the

, who particularly salutes the performance of Olivier Giroud, new record holder for the number of goals scored in the tricolor jersey .

"God save our king", King Kylian Mbappé: immense joy of the very French

, who turned to English for the occasion, since the Blues will meet England next Saturday, for these quarter-finals .

The English, visibly in a hurry to do battle with the French - as usual.

“And now, the turn of France”, challenges

.

"Bring Mbappé and Giroud back, Captain Kane is not afraid of anyone", boasts

, which has no doubt that the Blues will "bring luck" to the Three Lions, which is perhaps going a bit quickly to work.

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