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Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said on Thursday that Iran’s parliament and judiciary were considering a mandatory hijab law in the country, according to pro-reform group Entehab.
Montazeri was also quoted as saying that Iran’s feared morality police had been “abolished”, but Iranian state media strongly criticized these comments, saying the police were overseen by the Interior Ministry, not the judiciary. Stated.
CNN has reached out to the Home Office for comment.
Iranian women are now obliged to wear the hijab in public, based on strict Islamic law enforced by the country’s so-called moral police. Masa, 22, who died in police custody after being arrested by morality police for not wearing the hijab properly caused
Her death on September 16 touched the nerves of the Islamic Republic, with prominent celebrities including top Iranian actor Taraneh Alidusti coming out to support the movement.
The country has been caught in a wave of mass protests first sparked by Amini’s death, and has since rallyed various grievances against the regime. Authorities have launched a deadly crackdown on demonstrators, with reports that forced detention and physical abuse were used to target the country’s Kurdish minority group.
A recent CNN investigation found secret testimony of sexual violence against protesters, including boys, in Iran’s detention centers since the riots began.
Regarding the hijab method, Montazelli said: [women] Without a hijab in a city, do you think officials are silent about it? Quoted by state media ISNA.
However, there is no evidence to suggest any future changes to the law, which came into force after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

In response to a reporter who asked whether the country’s morality police had been disbanded, Montazeri was quoted as saying to Iranian state media: Discontinued from the same place where it was started. Of course, the judiciary will continue to monitor the behavior of society. ”
Arabic-language Al Alam state television claimed that foreign media portrayed Montazeri’s comments as “the Islamic Republic’s retreat from its stance on the hijab and religious morality as a result of the protests.” His comment was that the moral police are not directly related to the judiciary.
“However, officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran have not said the guidance patrols have been closed,” Al-Alam said on Sunday afternoon.
“Some foreign media have attempted to interpret these words of the Attorney General as the Islamic Republic retreating from issues of hijab and modesty, blaming recent riots.”
The remarks were made in Qom, a holy site for Siha Islam.