Iran ABOLISHES morality police after two months of violent hijab protests with 200 killed in bloody unrest

IRAN has scrapped its morality police after months of protests saw at least 200 killed, it is understood. Riots erupted across the country following the death of Mahsa Amini, who was allegedly arrested and beaten by cops for violating Iran’s strict female dress code. AFPRiots erupted across Iran after a young woman was allegedly beaten to death by morality cops[/caption] NewsflashMahsa Amini, 22, died after a beating by cops[/caption] It is thought the 22-year-old died after being left in a coma by the regime’s morality police – The Guidance Patrol. But after weeks of unrest, it is understood Iran will abolish them. “Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary” and have been abolished, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency. His comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked “why the morality police were being shut down”, the report said. The morality police — known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or “Guidance Patrol” — were established under hardline 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 needs to be changed. President Ebrahim Raisi said in televised comments Saturday that Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched “but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible”.