Women-led protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died on September 16 three days after the morality police booked her in Tehran.
Iran has reportedly scrapped its “morality police” amid ongoing protests triggered by a woman’s arrest for alleged violations of the country’s strict female dress code.
His comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked “why the morality police were being shut down”, the report said. The hijab became mandatory four years after the 1979 revolution that overthrew the US-backed Shah and established the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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