Iran abolishes morality police after protests over Mahsa Amini's death

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Montazeri explained that the judiciary will continue to monitor behavior at the community level and stressed that women's clothing continues to be very important, especially in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran.
54% : The city of Qom is the theological center of Iran, where the main seminaries of the country are located and where thousands of pilgrims and seminarians from all over the world visit and study.
39% : Iran has abolished the morality police, a force that monitored people's clothing and detained especially women who did not cover themselves in accordance with the codes dictated by the Islamic Republic system, the country's attorney general, Mohamad, said.
36% : According to the Security Council of Iran since the beginning of the protests "more than 200 people" have died, but foreign NGOs, such as Iran Human Rights, based in Oslo, put the death toll at 448 due to the strong police repression.
34% :Iran has been experiencing widespread protests since September 16, after the death in police custody of the 22-year-old Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested precisely by the morality police for allegedly wearing the Islamic veil wrong.

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