Attorney general: Iran will disband morality police amid protests

• Iran’s attorney general announces dissolution of country’s morality police.
• Morality police were disbanded from their base of operations.
• Morality police had no connection to the judiciary.

The country’s attorney general announces the dissolution of Iran’s morality police, which was charged with policing the nation’s Islamic dress code.

The remarks made by Mohammad Jafar Montazeri on Sunday at a gathering have not yet been verified by other organizations.

Protests over the murder of a young woman in detention have lasted for months in Iran.

The morality police held Mahsa Amini in custody for allegedly flouting their severe head-covering regulations.

When Mr. Montazeri was asked if the morality police were being abolished, he was attending a religious convention.

The morality police were disbanded from their base of operations since they had no connection to the judiciary, he claimed.

The interior ministry, not the judiciary, is in charge of the police.

Mr. Montazeri also informed the Iranian parliament on Saturday that the law requiring women to wear hijabs would be reviewed.

The long-standing law will not be modified even if the morality police are disbanded.

Since Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by Tehran’s morality police three days earlier and died in detention on September 16, protests led by women that the authorities have dubbed “riots” have erupted across Iran.

Although her passing served as the impetus for the upheaval, other factors like as poverty, unemployment, inequality, injustice, and corruption have also contributed to it.

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