He adds: Our religious extremists are more dangerous than an Atomic Bomb; We spend our resources on annihilating Israel, while Iranians are reduced to selling their organs, mothers selling their bodies for baby formula.

Iranian Islamic scholar Mohammad Mousavi criticized Islamic extremism in Iran during a March 11, 2024 interview on DidarNews on YouTube. 

He suggested that the Islamic Republic let go of some of the restrictions in some areas of the country. Mousavi said that Islamic tradition does not give clerics permission to enforce the hijab. 

He continued to say that religious fanaticism has killed more people than the coronavirus or the world wars. Mousavi added that Iranian religious extremism is more dangerous than an atomic bomb. 

He said that Iran has spent trillions of dollars on annihilating Israel within 25 years, financing Palestinians, Iraqis, and Syrians, while it promises its own citizens rewards only in the afterlife. 

Mousavi said that the economic policy of the Islamic regime has brought Iranians to sell their organs and mothers to sell their bodies in order to afford baby formula.

NEWSRAEL: For those of us who witnessed the downfall of the USSR, this is the type of events that brought what no one saw in advance to a reality. Here is an Iranian Muslim scholar basically saying that force Islam has brought the ruin of Iran and must be changed.

It is important to note that his call for "Sharia-free" areas also comes at a time where western Muslims are increasingly calling in the open for Sharia law.