Iran’s morality police has reportedly abolished that found itself in the centre of Storm of Protests continued for months after arrest And the death of Mahsa Amini over Violation of the female dress code, according to the local media Sunday.
Women-led protests, which authorities have called “riots”, have swept Iran for the past 22-yearOld Iranian of Kurdish origin is dead on September 16th, three days later arrest by the morality police in Tehran.
The morality police have nothing to do with The Iranian Student News Agency quoted Attorney General Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri as saying “the judiciary” and it was canceled. news Agency.
for him comment He came to a religious conference, where he responded to one of the participants who “Why was the morality police?” he asked shut down, the report said.
The morality police—officially known as the Jesht-e-Irshad or “guidance patrol”—were set up under hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to “spread cultural of humility and hijabMandatory female head coverage.
Units began to patrol in 2006.
The announcement of Their cancellation came a day after Montazeri said, “Both parliament The judiciary workson The issue)” of Whether the law requires women to cover their heads changed.
President Ibrahim Raisi said in And he said in televised remarks on Saturday that the republican and Islamic institutions in Iran are constitutionally established, “but there are methods of Implementation of the constitution can be flexible.”
The hijab It became mandatory four years after the 1979 revolution toppled the US-backed monarchy and established the Islamic Republic. of Iran.
Morality police officers initially issued warnings before starting to unravel down And the arrest women 15 years ago.
Etiquette teams were usually made up of men in green uniform and women Wearing in black The chador, the garment that covers their head and upper body.
The role of units evolved But it has always been controversial even among the candidates for Presidency.
Dress code gradually changedespecially under former Moderate President Hassan Rouhani. But in July this year for him conservative His successor, chief, called for packing of “All state institutions to implement the veil law.”
