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According to the attorney general, the moral police in Iran have been disbanded. This is reported by the Iranian newspaper Shargh, citing Attorney General Mohammed Jafar Montaseri. Exact details about the resolution are not yet known.

The vice squad was responsible for enforcing the rules of Islamic law, such as checking dress codes. The moral police is or was considered a notorious tool of the Iranian regime.

Critics of the regime reacted rather cautiously to the Attorney General’s announcement. The problem is not the moral police, but the lifting of the headscarf requirement, an Iranian activist wrote on Twitter, as reported by the “NZZ”. “Women should be able to go everywhere without a headscarf,” he demanded.

In recent days, there have been reports that the Iranian regime has begun to give in, at least in part, to pressure from the street. For the protesters, the dissolution of the moral police would certainly be a milestone.

The vice squad was instrumental in sparking protests in the country after a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died after being arrested by police. Her death sparked a wave of outrage and the start of protests. (con)