Protest-hit Iran revoked morality police .
‘Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary,’ says Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri .
Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests target by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly
violating the country’s strict female dress code, local media said Sunday.
“Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary” and have been revoked, Attorney General, was quoted as saying by the by the international agency .
His statement came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked “why the morality police were being close down, the report said .
The morality police — known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or “Guidance Patrol” — were established under president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to “spread the culture of modesty and hijab”, the female head covering.
The units began patrols in 2006.
The announcement of their abolition came a day after Montazeri said that “both parliament and the judiciary are working on the issue of whether the law requiring women to cover their heads tobe needs to be changed .
President Ebrahim Raisi said in televised comments Saturday that Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally attached with holy islam and its traditions and
entrenched “but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible with the passage of time .
