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The iranian authorities are currently reviewing the law that has forced women to wear the veil for decades, in an attempt to appease the wave of protests that has shaken the country for more than two months.
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“Parliament and the judiciary are working” in the matter, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told the Isna news agency on Thursday, which reported it on Friday. He did not specify what could be changed in the law.
Iran has been engulfed in a wave of protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish girl who died on September 16 after being detained by morality police for violating the Islamic Republic’s dress code, which requires women to wear the veil in public.
Women lead the protests, in which they shout anti-government slogans, remove and burn their headscarves. Since the start of the protest movement, there are also more and more women taking to the streets without the headscarf, especially in the north of Tehran, the capital.
Ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi told a conference in Tehran on Saturday that Iran’s Constitution “has solid and immutable values and principles” but that there were methods of application that could “change”.
The veil became compulsory in Iran in 1983, four years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled the US-backed monarchy of the shah.
The morality police, known as Gasht-e Ershad [patrullas de orientación]was created under the mandate of the ultra-conservative president Mahmud Ahmadinejad [de 2005 a 2013] to “spread the culture of decency and hijab.”
The issue of the headscarf remains highly sensitive in a country where Conservatives — who dominate Parliament and the judiciary — insist it should be compulsory.
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Result in “one or two weeks”
The attorney general announced an upcoming date for the results of the mandatory veiling test.
“On Wednesday we had a meeting with the culture commission of the parliament and we will see the results in one or two weeks,” he said in a speech in Qom, south of Tehran.
When its use became mandatory, it became common to see women in tight blue jeans. Veils were also worn loosely and colorful materials were used.
But in July, President Raissi called on “all state institutions” to enforce the headscarf law.
However, many women continued to break the rules.
In September, Iran’s main reformist party called for the law to be repealed.
The Islamic People’s Union Party of Iran, made up of people close to the former reformist president Mohamed Khatami, demanded the authorities on Saturday to prepare “the legal elements that pave the way for the annulment of the mandatory headscarf law.”
The opposition group also calls for the Islamic Republic “officially announce the end of the activities of the morality police” Y “allow peaceful demonstrations”, he says in a statement.
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Iran accuses the United States and its allies, as well as its arch-enemy Israel, of being behind the protests, which it describes as “unrest”.
A general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said for the first time this week that more than 300 people had lost their lives in the demonstrations.
The Supreme National Security Council, Iran’s highest security body, stated on Saturday quoted by the state agency IRNA that the number of people killed in the protests “exceeds 200″.
According to an Oslo-based human rights NGO, the protests left at least 448 people dead at the hands of security forces.
Source: Elcomercio
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