The nationwide protests in Iran have already lasted eleven weeks.
At the weekend, the demonstrators recorded a first stage victory: the vice squad, which had to monitor compliance with the dress code and whose brutal actions triggered the protests, was disbanded.
The addition that the judicial authorities should now be responsible for this cannot disguise the fact that the Islamic Republic has had to make a concession on a core ideological issue for the first time.
The enforcement of the headscarf requirement was the visible sign of society's control and that society also accepted this subjection.
The next step, however, will be more important: lifting the headscarf requirement and giving women the choice of whether they want to wear the headscarf or not.
The Tehran leadership wants to watch the protests for another two weeks and then decide on this issue.
Are the concessions too late?
That alone shows that the regime is no longer in control of the situation.
The protest movement, on the other hand, has gained new strength and now smells the dawn.
Many Iranian women in the big cities are already ignoring the headscarf requirement.
Does this mean that history is repeating itself?
The overthrow of the Shah in 1979 was also preceded by concessions;
but they came far too late and were too timid to avert the inevitable.
The fight for the future of the Islamic Republic of Iran is entering a new round.