Opinion
To win, the Iranian regime must go to war with women and teenage girls
Revolutionary Guards have no compunction about killing to protect the regime but when the enemy is your daughter, niece or sister, the stakes are much higher.
Afshon OstovarIran is undergoing an identity crisis. For almost a month, in streets and neighbourhoods across the country, people have rebelled against the Islamic Republic, calling for the death of its supreme leader and an end to the theocratic regime’s 43 years of rule, after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Tehran’s morality police.
The protests are mostly led by young women and teenage girls, who have abandoned their state-imposed religious headscarves in rejection of the very premise of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the theocracy it birthed.
Foreign Policy
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