Iran Official Signals Morality Police Has Been Shut Down, Protesters Skeptical

After eleven weeks of protests following the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, an Iranian official indicated the morality police had been suspended and that the government would consider relaxing its strict hijab law, but some say these sweeping statements are a strategy to quell uprisings; in response, protesters in Iran called for a three-day strike this week. The morality police, a police unit that enforces dress code, was the target of country-wide protests since September, after 22-year-old Amini died in the unit’s custody for allegedly violating the dress rules—which have been imposed since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Attorney General… Read Full Article