Iran has abolished the nation’s morality police, AFP reported quoting the prosecutor common. This comes as protests have raged throughout Iran prompting confrontations between demonstrators and safety forces for greater than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the nation’s strict feminine costume code.

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“Morality police don’t have anything to do with the judiciary” and have been abolished, Lawyer Common Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA information company.

The lawyer common commented at a spiritual convention the place he responded to a participant who requested “why the morality police had been being shut down”, the report mentioned.

The morality police- generally known as the Gasht-e Ershad or “Steering Patrol”- had been established underneath president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to “unfold the tradition of modesty and hijab”. The items started patrols in 2006.

The announcement of their abolition got here a day after Jafar Montazeri mentioned that “each parliament and the judiciary are working (on the problem)” of whether or not the legislation requiring ladies to cowl their heads must be modified.