A New Generation Of Resistance In Iran

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in Tehran police custody after being detained for wearing her hijab loosely. Her death sparked a movement. We talk with Iranian American scholar Pardis Mahdavi about the morality police and Iran's cultural resistance. Mahdavi herself was once arrested in Tehran for lecturing about Iran's sexual revolution. She wonders if the country's current wave of protests might result in regime change.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting
0:04.7	WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation.
0:11.4	This is Fresh Air.
0:12.8	I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross.
0:15.4	Today, for some insight into the growing protests in Iran, our guest interview
0:20.1	Urtania Mosley speaks with an Iranian American scholar who's researched and
0:24.7	personally experienced some of the state actions that have provoked outrage in
0:29.2	recent weeks. Here's Tanya who begins with the event that sparked the protests
0:34.0	three weeks ago.
0:35.8	22 year old Masa Amini was with her brother at a train station in Tehran when she
0:41.0	was stopped by Iran's morality police.
0:43.8	Amini had a few strands of hair that peaked outside of her headscarf, which police
0:48.0	said violated the country's hijab rules.
0:51.1	They took her into custody and three days later she was dead.
0:54.3	The Iranian government says Amini died of a heart attack and possibly a stroke.
0:59.3	Her family and thousands of protesters think she was killed.
1:03.2	Partis, Madavi and Iranian American scholar understands what it's like to be
1:08.0	detained by the morality police.
1:10.3	15 years ago, she was also arrested while giving a lecture in Tehran on gender
1:14.6	and sexual politics.
1:16.7	Madavi is provost of the University of Montana, a trained anthropologist and the
1:21.2	author of several books, including passionate uprisings, Iran's sexual revolution.
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