{"id":299245,"date":"2022-12-05T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=299245"},"modified":"2022-12-05T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:40:12","slug":"protest-hit-iran-abolishes-morality-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/protest-hit-iran-abolishes-morality-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest-hit Iran abolishes morality police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary, says attorney general<br \/>\n Tehran<br \/>\nIran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country\u2019s strict female dress code, local media said on Sunday.<br \/>\n\u201cMorality police have nothing to do with the judiciary\u201d and have been abolished, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.<br \/>\nHis comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked \u201cwhy the morality police were being shut down,\u201d the report said.<br \/>\nThe morality police \u2014 known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or \u201cGuidance Patrol\u201d \u2014 were established under hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to \u201cspread the culture of modesty and hijab,\u201d the female head covering.<br \/>\nThe units began patrols in 2006.<br \/>\nThe announcement of their abolition came a day after Montazeri said that \u201cboth parliament and the judiciary are working (on the issue)\u201d of whether the law requiring women to cover their heads needs to be changed.<br \/>\nPresident Ebrahim Raisi said in televised comments on Saturday that Iran\u2019s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched \u201cbut there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morality police 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