It breaks my heart when I see that for years and years,

I have been warning the whole world about the danger of morality police.

Now, because of the brutal death of Mahzah, I mean, finally we see sense of unity among

feminists, athletes, celebrities, female politicians, which is beautiful.

But it didn't need for teenagers to get killed in Iran for the whole world to wake up.

Hello and welcome to the GZero World podcast.

This is where you'll find extended versions of my interviews on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer.

And on this episode, we're looking at the most significant protests to rock Iran since the Green Movement back in 2009.

Since September, hundreds of thousands of young and mostly female demonstrators have filled the streets of nearly every major city in Iran from Tehran to Tabriz.

Many discarding their headscarves at great personal risk to protest draconian social

rules and restrictions. The backlash from security forces has been brutal, though except in the

Kurdish region, the Iranian government has yet to send in the Revolutionary Guard.

And it's happening at a time when Iran is already in the spotlight, when its men's

national team put up a heck of a fight at the 2002 World Cup, watched by over a billion people.

Where will these protests lead? And what are the geopolitical implications for the region and for the

West? I'm joined today by Iranian-American journalist and activist Masi Al-Najad to discuss all that

and more.

Let's get to it.

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