It is Iran’s attorney general who is said to have said that the country’s morality police should be shut down. The information is not confirmed by the regime. On Sunday evening, the message was rejected on state Iranian television, reports CNN. Among other things, the moral police has had the task of ensuring that women wear the hijab correctly. The Swedish-Iranian Atefeh Sebdani fled to Sweden as a five-year-old, and she does not give much information.
– This is pure propaganda for us, she says.
The information that Iran’s morality police is to be shut down comes after the massive protests that have taken place in the country recently. The protests gained momentum after 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini died after being taken away by the morality police, who had taken issue with the way she wore her veil.
TV4 Nyheterna’s Middle East correspondent Terese Cristiansson analyzes.
– It is not impossible that we will see more brutality after this in Iran, she says.