However, Minister of Justice Jafar Montazeri does not want to elaborate on exactly how the law may be changed.
- Both the parliament and the Ministry of Justice are working on the question of whether the law needs to be changed, he says according to state media.
President Ebrahim Raisi has said on Saturday that basic Islamic values are still a foundation in Iran's constitution.
- But there are ways to implement the constitution in flexible ways, the president said in the televised speech.
Popular protests
It is the headscarf requirement and the brutal methods of the so-called morality police to ensure that it is observed that is considered to be the driving force behind the popular protests against the country's regime in recent months.
The igniting spark was when 22-year-old student Mahsa Amini died while in the custody of the morality police.
So far, more than 300 people are believed to have been killed in the brutal attempts to stop the demonstrations.
The hijab compulsion was introduced in 1983, four years after the Islamic revolution when the clergy seized power in Iran.
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SVT's reporter Gilda Hamidi-Nia lists important moments in the history of the veil in Iran.. Photo: SVT/AP