Iran shutting down 'morality police,' could ease hajib rules amid deadly protests

Iran is apparently shutting down its "morality police" amid violent protests sweeping the nation since the death of a woman forcibly taken into custody after being accused of violating the theocracy’s strict Islamic dress code.

Iranian Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, speaking Sunday at a religious conference, said the Gasht-e Ershad "had nothing to do with the judiciary and have been shut down," according to BBC Persian. The Gasht-e-Ershad reported to Iran's Interior Ministry.

The Interior Ministry said Sunday that over 200 people, including security forces and civilian, have died in the protests. Damage was estimated at $40 million.

On Saturday, Montazeri said the hijab law would be reviewed and that recommendations could come in a week or two. President Ebrahim Raisi, who called for a crackdown on the hajib law in July, also showed signs of retreat.

"There are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible," he said.

The morality police was established in 2005 under then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hard-liner who sought to “spread the culture of modesty and hijab." Women also are required to cover their bodies in long, loose clothing.

The uprisings have rolled across dozens of cities, and the government has blocked Internet connectivity across the nation. Mass arrests of students, journalists, activists, artists, sports figures and celebrities who expressed grievances with Iran's hard-line government have become almost daily events.

The issue spread into the World Cup underway in Qatar. Iran's national team qualified, then the players refused to sing the national anthem in their first match against England. The team played three games – including a loss to the U.S. – and was knocked out before single-elimination games began Saturday.

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Let's see how this turns out. The Iranian people are not the Iranian government. The people in Iran like the west more than the government does. If these protests work it could lead to more changes and that couldn't hurt.

Well this isn't good, What will the men do if they see a sprig of hair peaking out of a woman's head dress? They will get all crazy with lust.

I imagine rapes will increase exponentially.

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Political Correctness, is Fascism masquerading as manners - George Carlin.

They used to be a more western society before the religious morons took over.

I have been reading about Afghanistan going back to the ultra Islamist ways.

20 years or so of allowing women to have rights, all down the drain.

Stone age people do stone age things.

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Political Correctness, is Fascism masquerading as manners - George Carlin.

Religion keeps some folks stuck in the stone age

Radical Islam, not all religion is driving Iran's dictatorship. Obama prostrated American foreign policy to help the Iranian mullahs into the modern era of nuclear weapons despite their official policy of "Death to America". He went so far as to bypass the Constitutional treaty requirements with a so-called agreement and sent plane loads of cash to a world leading sponsor of terrorism. Kim Jung Biden is anxious to shackle the US back into the same agreement.

Obama and now Biden spare no effort to accommodate the regime keeping Iran in the stone age using religious zealotry. Quite a contrast for Democrat leaders like Biden and Pelosi who claim to be good Catholics.

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If Democrats were confident their nominee actually received more than 80 million votes they wouldn't have more troops occupying Washington, DC than Lincoln had defending the city during the Civil War. Not Joe Biden, Kim Jung Biden.

Geeez, Obama, Biden, Democrats blah blah blah.