Iran disbands morality police

Promise Odejide

Iran has announced the dissolution of its morality police.

The abolishment followed protracted demonstrations sparked by the arrest of one Mahsa Amini who reportedly flouted the country’s female dress law.

The country’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, noted that Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary” and have been abolished.

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Mohammad made this comment at a religious gathering after responding to a participant who asked “why the morality police were being shut down?”

The morality police otherwise known as the Gasht-e Ershad or “Guidance Patrol” that began started operation in 2006 was established by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to “circulate the culture of modesty and hijab”, the female head covering.

The units were discarded a day after Montazeri said that both parliament and the judiciary are considering whether the legislation mandating women to cover their heads should be reviewed.

President Ebrahim Raisi, in a broadcast speech, said on Saturday that the country’s republican and Islamic foundations were legally entrenched “but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible”.