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Iran has had various forms of 'morality police' since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but the latest version - known formally as the Guidance Patrol (Gasht-e-Ershad) - is currently the main agency enforcing Iran's Islamic code of conduct.

They began their patrols in 2006 to enforce the dress code which requires women to wear long clothes and forbids shorts, ripped jeans and other clothes deemed immodest.

When asked about the Guidance Patrol at a conference, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said they "have been shut down from where they were set up."

However, he stressed that the judiciary would continue "to monitor behavioural actions at the community level."

The Guidance Patrol is part of the national police force and control lies with the interior ministry and not with the judiciary.

After the 成人快手 and other foreign media picked up the attorney general's statement, some Iranian state media outlets pushed back on the morality police having been disbanded.

State-run Arabic-language TV channel Al-Alam said some had "tried to misinterpret" what the attorney general said.

"The most that can be understood from Mohammed Jafar Montazeri's remarks is that the morality police's patrols have not been connected to the judiciary since their inception."

Two Iranian women, unnamed for their safety, gave their views to Newshour on the possibility of the morality police being disbanded.

"We the protesters don't care about no hijab no more...a revolution is what we care about."

"This regime must go so we can be free."

(Photo: A protester holds a drawing of Mahsa Amini. Iranians of Toulouse organized a protest in Toulouse in solidarity with women and protesters in Iran, December 3rd 2022. Credit: Alain Pitton via Getty Images)

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