Iran suspends morality police that sparked massive protests

The operations of Iran’s “morality police” have successfully been suspended after months of large anti-government protests over the dying of a younger girl in its custody, a prime official mentioned.

Formally known as the Steering Patrol, the police unit has for years stalked main intersections and thoroughfares in Iranian cities, arresting largely younger girls for flouting the Islamic Republic’s strict non secular gown codes.

“The Steering Patrol has nothing to do with the judiciary; it was suspended by the identical establishment that fashioned it prior to now,” the semi-official Iranian Labour Information Company reported, citing Chief Public Prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri. “In fact, the judiciary continues to watch conduct locally.”