Authorities announce new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf, after policing was scaled back following mass protests last year

Iranian authorities have announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf, as “morality police” returned to the streets 10 months after the death of a woman in their custody sparked nationwide protests.

The morality police had largely pulled back after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September, as authorities struggled to contain mass protests calling for the overthrow of the theocracy that has ruled Iran for over four decades.