An Iranian Uprising Led By Women

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Mahsa Amini, 22, traveled from her hometown in the province of Kurdistan to the Iranian capital, Tehran, this month. Emerging from the subway, she was arrested for failing to cover her hair modestly enough. Three days later, she was dead. The anger over Ms. Amini’s death has prompted days of rage, exhilaration and street battles across Iran, with women stripping off their head scarves — and even burning them — in the most significant outpouring of dissent against the ruling system in more than a decade. Guest: Farnaz Fassihi, a reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:04.3	This is The Daily.
0:11.8	Today.
0:13.8	How the death of a young woman in Iran unleashed the pent-up fury of the entire country.
0:21.8	My colleague, Farnas Fasee, has been reporting on the protests unfolding across Iran and the
0:29.4	grievances of those who have taken to the streets.
0:36.2	It's Wednesday, September 28.
0:43.7	Farnas tell us the story of Masa Amini and what exactly happened to her last week in Iran.
0:51.2	Masa Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian young woman who traveled from her hometown
0:59.4	of Sakhas in the province of Kurdistan to the capital Tehran with her family.
1:05.0	She was a youthful, beautiful young woman, full of life.
1:09.4	She had just gotten a job at a shop in her hometown and was hoping to study to go to the university.
1:15.8	She's a small town girl coming to the capital to visit relatives with her family.
1:21.8	She gets in the subway with her brother, gets out of the subway station, and she encounters
1:28.0	what's known as the morality police.
1:30.6	What is that?
1:31.6	The morality police is a force in Iran that polices what women wear.
1:37.0	Because Iran has a law of mandatory hijab.
1:40.0	Women have to cover their hair.
1:41.5	They have to cover the curves of their body.
1:44.8	The government polices that with the morality police.
1:49.9	Masa was wearing a long loose robe, a black long loose robe covering her body.
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