Hijab law review

Iran is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to wear a hijab, as authorities struggle to quell months-long protests over the dress code. President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched, but that there were “methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible”. On Saturday the country’s attorney general said the parliament and the judiciary were reviewing legislation

requiring a head covering. The headscarf became obligatory for all women in Iran in April 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the US-backed monarchy.