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Kelly McClure

Iran disbanding morality police

Protesters, including one woman holding up a headscarf, gather to demonstrate against the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran on September 23, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Iran's attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, announced over the weekend that the country will be moving forward with the decision to disband their "morality police," which was tasked with enforcing strict Islamic dress code. 

This move comes in the wake of a young woman named Mahsa Amini being detained and killed in September for breaking said dress code by refusing to wear a hijab in public.

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