Regimes rattled + more

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🌐 WorldWise Briefing Threads | key headlines curated to make sense of the news.

It’s a small yielding to people power.

There seems to be a concession in response to the protests that rocked Iran since September, when 22 year-old Mahsa Amini died in the hands of the country’s ‘morality police’ in charge of enforcing the country's Islamic dress code.

Iran’s attorney general has said the police unit is being shut down, and that the government is reviewing the law on the compulsory hijab. (BBC + Sensemaker + Al Jazeera + Al Jazeera)

But—there’s doubt as to how significant or real this actually is.