Hawzah News Agency- In a statement, Al-Wefaq said the decision, issued in early September 2026, is not an ordinary administrative measure but a new link in a chain of systematic targeting of religious identity and an extension of the war of eradication against Shia Muslims. The move, it said, comes amid an intense campaign against the community that includes the detention of its scholars, the criminalization of its religious duties and interference in all aspects of its religious life.
The Justice Ministry decision, the statement said, is aimed at completing the regime's effort to seize control of the religious pulpit by determining who has the right to speak on religious matters — meaning any voice that does not sing the praises of the ruling system is to be silenced and prevented from exercising its natural right to religious propagation and the revival of rituals.
The requirement of a "certificate of good conduct" to engage in speeches and eulogy recitation, Al-Wefaq said, is a vague and ambiguous condition that serves as a full-fledged security tool to eliminate hundreds of preachers, eulogists and religious scholars who have faced arbitrary arrests or vindictive trials because of their positions.
The regime, it added, is now trying to turn preachers and eulogists into mere employees waiting for a security permit from the Justice Ministry, or for a pre-prepared sermon to be sent to them from the corridors of the Interior Ministry — a move that empties rituals of their independent content and turns them into ceremonies under tight political supervision.
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