Protests in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini are entering their second week and have spread throughout the country.
Summary
Protests in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini are entering their second week and have spread throughout the country.
- Amini was detained for improperly wearing a hijab in public by Iran’s morality police and died in custody under suspicious circumstances.
- Protests and unrest have spread to dozens of Iranian cities and have featured large numbers of women protesting corruption, economic mismanagement, the country’s strict hijab law, and other repressive policies.
- People have taken to the streets in at least 46 cities. At least 41 protesters and police have been killed since September 17 and at least 1,200 demonstrators have been arrested.
- The New York Times summarized why young Iranians have taken to the streets: “They have nothing to lose.”
- Time wrote the morality police who arrested Mahsa Amini must have had no idea that this seemingly routine arrest of a woman who appeared in public without a hijab would spark protests that have “shaken the Islamic Republic to its core”
- CNN reported the frustrations of young Iranians are decades in the making and deaths of dozens of protesters and the arrests of at least 1,200 Iranians have done little so far to quell the unrest.
- The Wall Street Journal profiled Mojtaba Khamenei, a target of the protesters’ ire and the son of the ailing Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran.
- The Washington Examiner covered efforts by the Treasury Department and Elon Musk to expand internet access in Iran amid a regime crackdown.
- National Review outlined steps the U.S. government can take to support the Iranian people protesting in the streets and stop the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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