COLLEGE PARK, Maryland: The United States said on Monday it saw no sign that Iran was improving its treatment of women following reports that Tehran had abolished its notorious morality police amid a wave of civil unrest.

Iran is witnessing some of the most significant protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in the wake of the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin who had been detained by the morality police, which enforces strict dress codes for women.

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