The Italian center left newspaper La Republica in a report from Tehran wrote that the oppressed and exhausted people of Iran express their hatred for the Mullahs on the streets of Iran by openly castigating and verbally abusing them as they blame the Mullahs for the general chaos in Iran.
La Republica wrote that the hatred of the ruling mullahs is to the extent that a young novitiate from a seminary in Ghom said that when he steps out into the streets alone and especially when he goes to big cities like Tehran he goes in plain clothes and not in his religious garment.