Iran ABOLISHES morality police after two months of protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini

Iran has scrapped its morality police units after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest and death of Mahsa Amini who allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media say.

'Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary' and have been abolished, Iran's attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.

The attorney general also said the Iranian parliament is considering removing law that makes wearing a Hijab mandatory, in a rare sign that the Islamic theocracy...