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An Iranian bank manager who served an unveiled woman has been fired, local media reported on Sunday, as demonstrations triggered by the mandatory head-covering rule shake the Islamic Republic. Women in the country of more than 80 million people are required to cover their heads, necks and hair, a law enforced by the country’s morality police. The 16 September death in morality police custody of Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini, 22, for allegedly breaching the dress code rules, sparked nationwide demonstrations which authorities call “riots”. Amini’s Kurdish first name can be spelt “Zhina” or “Jina”…