Finally Iran’s ‘Morality Police’ Disbanded

Tehran: After over two months of protests, Iran scrapped its morality police on Sunday.

The protests were triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country’s strict female dress code.

“Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary” and have been abolished, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.

The announcement of their abolition came a day after Montazeri said that “both parliament and the judiciary are working (on the issue)” of whether the law requiring women to cover their heads needs to be changed.

The morality police — known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or “Guidance Patrol” — were established under hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to “spread the culture of modesty and hijab”, the female head covering.