Will the decision appease the anger or rekindle it?
The Iranian Parliament and the Judiciary are working on the issue of the compulsory wearing of the veil for women, announced the public prosecutor, quoted Friday by the news agency Isna.
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"We had a meeting with the Parliament's Cultural Committee on Wednesday and we will see the results in a week or two," ultra-conservative attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said in a speech in Qom, south of Tehran.
But he has not, for the time being, specified what could be modified in the law, nor whether this change was aimed at tightening or relaxing the rules.
New restrictions with Raissi
For his part, President Ebrahim Raïsi, also very conservative, declared this Saturday in Tehran, during a conference: “Our constitution has solid and immutable values and principles (…).
But there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be changed.”
He has also already imposed new dress restrictions.
This summer, he notably passed a law specifying that the compulsory headscarf for women must cover the neck and shoulders in addition to the hair.
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The subject is explosive in Iran.
The country has been in turmoil since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who died on September 16 after her arrest by morality police for violating the Islamic Republic's dress code, requiring women to wear the veil in public. .
Iranian women spearheaded the protests, shouting anti-government slogans, removing and burning their headscarves.
A growing number of women are baring their heads, especially in the upscale north of Tehran.
The protest movement is violently repressed.
The Supreme National Security Council said on Saturday that "more than 200 people" had been killed in two and a half months of protests.
This number includes, according to the official Irna agency, “civilian and security force deaths, victims of clashes between opposing groups, rioters and counter-revolutionary and separatist groups”.
The NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) estimates for its part that at least 448 demonstrators have been killed since the beginning of the violently repressed movement.
Some 14,000 people, including children, have been arrested in the crackdown on protests in Iran, according to the UN.
The veil was made compulsory in 1983, four years after the 1979 Islamic revolution. spread the culture of decency and hijab”.