Iran’s so-called morality police unit, whose actions sparked months of protests, has been suspended, a top Iranian official said Sunday — although the status of the force remains uncertain.
Experts explain what exactly Iran's morality police do, and why women are risking their lives on the front lines to fight against it.
“If the regime has now responded in some fashion to those protests, that could be a positive thing, but we have to see how it actually plays out in practice and what the Iranian people think,” Secretary of State Antony BlinkenIran’s Guidance Patrol was formally created in the 1990s to root out and punish any violations of the Islamic republic’s strict, though at times arbitrarily enforced, religious rules and dress codes issued by its ruling clerics.
In response, women started holding small-scale protests, removing their hijab. Amini’s death in September sparked such outrage in part because women across Iran were fed up with decades of authorities infringing on their lives — and the broader gender segregation and state violence bolstering the Islamic republic.
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