After the Iranian authorities failed to quell the protests that erupted nearly three months ago, following the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, as a result of her torture at the hands of the morality police, they began to take measures to calm the demonstrations.
The first of these steps was the Iranian regime's announcement, yesterday evening, Saturday, of closing the Guidance and Guidance Police patrols, or what is known as the "morality police", which are run by the Ministry of the Interior and served as a spark that fueled Iranians' anger, due to the violations they are subjected to.
The Iranian regime seeks, by abolishing the morality police, to calm the popular protests that erupted about two and a half months ago, which resulted in the death and injury of dozens due to the use of lethal force by the police forces to try to suppress the protesters.
Yesterday evening, the Attorney General of Iran, Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri, who was speaking at a symposium in Qom, central Iran, about the recent protests and their causes, announced the closure of morality police patrols, in a step among other steps taken by the Iranian authorities to calm popular anger against the regime in Tehran.
The 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died after being arrested by the "morality police" on September 16 for not wearing a headscarf. She was tortured and fell into a coma after a short time, then died three days later.
After her death, popular protests against the Iranian regime erupted, calling on the local authorities to abandon the imposition of the hijab. However, the demonstrations witnessed acts of "violence", which claimed the lives of more than 450 people, according to the human rights organization "Hrana".
In addition to the decision to abolish the morality police, the Iranian authorities are reviewing the veil law, which has become compulsory in Iran since April 1983, that is, four years after the "revolution" that overthrew the regime of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.
Many Iranian women reject the compulsory hijab law, which resulted in the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was tortured by the morality police for not wearing the hijab, in addition to the exposure of many women to human rights violations for refusing to wear a headscarf in the Iranian streets.
During the Iranian protests, female demonstrators burned their headscarves and chanted anti-government chants. Since Amini's death, the number of women who refuse to wear the hijab has increased, especially in northern Iran.
The Iranian parliament and the judiciary in Tehran are conducting a review of the law that requires women to wear a headscarf, which sparked the "bloody" protests, according to what the Public Prosecutor announced and was quoted by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).