Numerous women and girls have been detained in Iran for failing to heed head-covering regulations, and hundreds of businesses have been closed for failing to enforce them, UN rights officials reported in Geneva on Friday. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said Iran’s morality police had announced stricter checks some weeks ago. The move appears to be a crackdown after women increasingly began to ignore the rules following a protest wave in the autumn of 2022. Türk expressed criticism of a draft law that will impose jail sentences of 10 years as well as flogging as punishm…