Iranian authorities announced on Sunday that they would resume enforcing Islamic dress for women in the country, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Police spokesman General Saeed Montazerormadi said the moral police would resume reporting and detaining women not wearing hijabs in public. Associated Press report. Morality police officers, who had largely disappeared from the streets after the anti-hijab protests late last year, have reappeared in marked vans patrolling the streets.

The announcement comes a day after the arrest of young Iranian actor Mohammed Sadeghi, who criticized the detention of a woman by the moral police captured on video, reportedly saying, “Believe me, that If I see a scene like that, I will do it,” he said. You may commit murder,” the Associated Press noted. (Related: ‘Aren’t we human?’: Taliban reportedly ban hair salons in Afghanistan)

Iran has resumed patrols by its so-called moral police as authorities step up enforcement of mandatory hijab regulations. https://t.co/gEdKMtXCJt pic.twitter.com/xE8M3e4WHy

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nationwide protests Movements against enacting hijab rules erupted last fall following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in moral police custody in September 2022, calling anti-government protests and Iranian clerics ” It snowballed into voices accusing it of being corrupt. , oppressive and lacking contact,” reports the Associated Press. The government crackdown on the protests has reportedly killed more than 500 participants and detained nearly 20,000.

A recent court ruling against popular Iranian actress Azadeh Samadhi ruling that she must attend psychotherapy sessions designated for anti-social personalities has led to the Iranian Film Directors Association and the Iranian Filmmakers It reportedly provoked anger from the union. iran front page news. The agency said it stood firm against Samadhi and all actresses “who have been similarly and unjustly humiliated”, the report said. The woman was allowed to wash her body at a funeral home, and court rulings have included social media bans, travel bans and jail terms for violating hijab rules, reports said. iran international.

According to the Iranian Ministry of Education, instructed Sunday, when learning English was not compulsory. Iran reportedly banned English teaching in all primary schools in 2016.