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Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. CNN  —  An Iranian official’s comment signaling that the country’s notorious morality police had been shut down has raised more questions than …

Clashes broke out throughout Iran on Wednesday, October 26, as thousands of people came to the burial site of Mahsa Amini in Saqqez, a city in the Kurdistan province, to mark 40 days since her death. Protests have swept through the Islamic Republic following the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish …

A young Iranian woman has died after she was violently arrested and beaten by Iran’s notorious morality police force for not wearing a hijab.   According to Mail Online, Mahsa Amini, 22, went into a coma after being arrested in Tehran and died while she was in police custody in Kasra hospital …