Iran Shutting Down Morality Police,Official Says, After Months of Protests
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Source: New York Times
Iran is abolishing the morality police, according to an announcement by the attorney general carried on state media, following months of protests set off by the death of a young woman who was being held by the force for supposedly violating the country's strict Islamic dress laws.
The decision, reported by state news outlets late Saturday night, appeared to be a major victory for feminists who have sought for years to dismantle the force and for the protest movement ignited by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, in September. The unrest has amounted to one of the biggest challenges in decades to Iran's system of authoritarian clerical rule and the decision to scrap the morality police was the government's first major concession to the protesters.
The morality police "was abolished by the same authorities who installed it," the statement by Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri said, according to state media reports. But he went on to suggest that the judiciary would still enforce restrictions on "social behavior." He also indicated that the authorities were reviewing the head scarf regulations. But it was not immediately clear what impact these changes would have on enforcement of the dress code or whether the authorities were planning to relax the hijab law, which remained in place.
The primary role of the morality police was to enforce the laws related to Iran's conservative Islamic dress code, imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and recently invigorated by the country's new ultraconservative president. The dress code for women became an ideological pillar of the ruling clerical establishment, central to its identity.
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Iran has abolished the morality police, according to an announcement by the attorney general carried on state media, following months of protests set off by the death of a young woman who was being held by the force for supposedly violating the country's strict Islamic dress laws.
The decision, reported by state news outlets late Saturday night, appeared to be a major victory for feminists who have sought for years to dismantle the force and for the protest movement ignited by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, in September. The unrest has amounted to one of the biggest challenges in decades to Iran's system of authoritarian clerical rule and the decision to scrap the morality police was the government's first major concession to the protesters.
The morality police "was abolished by the same authorities who installed it," the statement by Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri said, according to state media reports. But he went on to suggest that the judiciary would still enforce restrictions on "social behavior." He also indicated that the authorities were reviewing the head scarf regulations. But it was not clear whether the authorities planned to relax the hijab law, which remained in force.
The primary role of the morality police was to enforce the laws related to Iran's conservative Islamic dress code, imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and recently invigorated by the country's new ultraconservative president. The dress code for women became an ideological pillar of the ruling clerical establishment, central to its identity.
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and this was being reported in August -
Published Wed, Aug 31 20221:43 AM EDT
Natasha Turak
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The return of the Iran nuclear deal could be imminent — and with it, the return of a lot of oil to international crude markets. Before the U.S. resumed sanctions on Iran after former President Donald Trump left the deal in 2018, Iran was the third-largest producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia and Iraq. In 2017, it was the fourth-largest oil producer in the world, after the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia.
“OPEC could easily produce 30.5 million bpd (barrels per day) if Iran comes back and those barrels are not accommodated,” Tamas Varga, analyst at PVM Oil Associates in London, told CNBC on Tuesday. “Under this scenario my model shows Brent dipping to $65? per barrel in the second half of 2023, Varga said. That’s a massive drop from the current price of Brent crude, which was trading at just over $101 a barrel on Tuesday morning in New York.
Last week, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, warned that OPEC could be forced to cut oil production. The minister’s reasoning was that physical and paper markets are “disconnected” with the latter suffering from “very thin liquidity, extreme volatility,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg last week.
But Iran’s potential reemergence on the market is also likely to be a concern, analysts say. “OPEC+ might be preparing for the eventual return of Iran,” Varga wrote in a report Tuesday. “Should the nuclear deal be revived, 1-2 million barrels per day of extra oil could hit the market in a comparatively short period of time.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/31/an-iran-nuclear-deal-revival-could-dramatically-alter-oil-prices.html
Now we see Venezuela making a return and Iran missing out on the income from the higher prices and apparently OPEC had made, and now continued to confirm a decision to cut production so if Iran suddenly got some sanctions lifted (thanks to backing off from draconian crap like "morality police" ) then.
1st post in the thread - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3002808
early '00s!
I have a neighbor who does - head to toe. Her young daughter wears a full scarf and gown covering to the ankles.
It depends because like other religions including Christianity, there are different sects with different "rules" and for example you still have this going on but it's not talked about much if at all and it makes you wonder why 
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Amish
Mennonites
Thanks for the photos. I hadn't thought of those disgusting costumes in a while. 
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but when the family has hosted get-togethers, there were other women who have attended who wore burkas.
The men wear a kufi (hat/cap) and full length thobe (neck to feet robe).
(edit to fix "where" to "wear" - not enough coffee 
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my "where" to be "wear" because I was just getting some sips of coffee so the caffeine hadn't kicked in yet. 
I have seen all sorts of variations here where I live depending on whether the individuals are members of U.S. sects or are from Mideast, African, or E/SE European or Asian sects.
E.g., women in Bosnia -
Hell... we still have some older Catholic/Episcopal/Lutheran women in some orders who still wear a full habit (most don't though). My own Episcopal Church hosted a group of nuns for many decades who were part of the Society of St. Margaret, where that order eventually consolidated and are no longer here, but are still active elsewhere.
