The morality police have disappeared from the streets of Iran since protests began in September. But a prosecutor has said that unspecified cultural methods will be adopted instead. Women are walking around the streets without veils, and veiled at passport control. It does suggest that there is some thinking at high levels of government that really they have to try and accommodate the street if they're going to hold on to power.
The enforcers of the hardliners’ mores may have been disbanded; it is
hard to know if the regime is bending to protesters or sowing confusion. Either way the disquiet looks set to continue. We take a look at China’s widely watched nightly news and the narrative it hopes to promulgate. And why women are suddenly
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