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Iran’s most prominent reformist party urged Tehran to overturn obligatory headscarf laws on Saturday in the wake of the ongoing Mahsa Amini protests that rocked the country. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian, died on 16 September following her arrest in Tehran three days prior by the country’s Morality Police, who apprehended her for not wearing the hijab “correctly”. The Islamic People’s Union of Iran, formed by close associates of former reformist President Mohammad Khatami, said that it “demands” that authorities “prepare necessary legal elements that will pave the way for the abolition …