TEHRAN, Iran — More than half the members of Iran’s parliament have accused the judiciary of failing to properly enforce the law on mandatory headscarves, state media reported Tuesday, with some Iranian women now refusing to wear the hijab.

Under rules imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, all women in Iran are required to cover their hair completely and wear modest, loose-fitting clothing when in public.

But in major cities, particularly Tehran, many women are now going out without headscarves, sometimes sporting dyed hair along with jeans and sneakers.

“The judiciary cannot remain passive,” 155 of Iran’s 290 lawmakers wrote in a letter to judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei.

“The lack of will to promulgate a law approved by the parliament and the failure to implement the Islamic Penal Code have paved the ground for nudity, not observing hijab and other abnormal behaviors,” the........

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