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A Feminist Uprising in Iran

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Oct 20, 2022
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Iran is in the midst of the most significant protest movement in years — and it is being lead by women and girls.

The spark that ignited this movement was the murder of 22 year old Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by Iran's morality police for improperly wearing her headscarf. She was beaten to death in police custody.

Protests erupted throughout the country, with women and school aged girls audaciously flaunting laws around dress codes. It is a feminist led uprising against the ultra-conservative government lead by Ebrahim Raisi and, as some argue, against the Islamic revolutionary system that has governed Iran since 1979.

In this episode, we are joined by Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian-American journalist and commentator and host of the Iran Podcast. We discuss how these protests started and then spread to become an intersectional movement. We then have an in-depth conversation about the Iranian government's response and what may come next.

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