Surrenders to the Islamic Republic of Iran, in review law imposing headscarves on women

Iranian authorities said they would review a decades-old law requiring women to wear the headscarf, as the country is trying to suppress more than two months of protests for more than two months related to the dress code.

“Like parliament and the judiciary are working on this issue, if the law needs any changes”, Iran's general prosecutor, Mohammad Jahfar Montazer, said on Saturday.

He did not specify what can be modified in law by two organs, both mainly in the hands of conservatives.

The review team met on Wednesday with parliament's cultural commission and will see the results within a week or two, the general prosecutor said.

President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran's Republican and Islamic foundations were embedded in the constitution.

“But there are methods of implementing the constitution that could be flexible”, he said in TV comments.

Protests began on September 16th after the death of Mahsa Ammini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, arrested by moral police for allegedly violating the law based on cures.

Over the following weeks, demonstrators burned headcovers and displayed anti-government slogans. After Amin's death, a growing number of women have not worn headscarves, especially in northern Tehran.

The hyjab cover became mandatory for all women in Iran in April 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution overturned the US-backed monarchy.

Iran accuses its fierce enemy, the US and its allies, including Britain, Israel and Kurdish groups based abroad, of inciting street protests, which the government calls <x0);tratratrara”, reports Guardian, broadcast Klankosova.tv.

The nongovernmental organisation Iran Human Rights in Oslo said on Tuesday that at least 448 people were killed by security forces in ongoing nationwide protests