On Saturday, Iran said it will review its decades-old headscarf law, after the country struggles to quell two months of nationwide protests against the dress code.
In September, protests erupted in Iran following the arrest and death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the morality police for “inappropriate attire”.
Iran’s main reformist party, the Union of Islamic Iran People Party called for the mandatory hijab law to be revoked, end the morality police and “allow peaceful demonstrations”.
On Wednesday, the review team met with the parliament’s cultural commission “and will see the results in a week or two,” according to Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri.
In 1983, the hijab headscarf became mandatory for all women in Iran, four years after the Islamic Revolution overthrew the US-backed monarchy.
