Despite government crackdown, change is underway in Iran

Amanpour

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

President Biden today marked one year since the death of Mahsa Amini, who died after being manhandled by Iran’s “morality police” for not wearing her hijab properly. Many protesters hoped for the downfall of the regime in the wake of her death, but the ayatollahs have survived, and the regime is rounding up activists and journalists, hoping to pre-empt any new demonstrations. Mahnaz Afkhami was minister of women’s affairs in Iran’s government before the 1979 Islamic revolution, and she joins the show to explain why she believes that, despite the regime’s brutal crackdown, change is underway inside Iran. Also on today’s show: correspondent Jomana Karadsheh reports from Libya; Norwegian Refugee Council’s Jan Egeland; Catherine Fieschi, Director, Open Society Foundations Europe and Central Asia To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	President Biden observes one year since the death in custody of 22-year-old Masa Amini.
0:15.8	I ask Mahna's Aframi, Iran's first and last Minister of Women's Affairs, whether
0:21.5	Amini's legacy has spurred progress on women's rights.
0:25.0	Then, devastation in Libya, I speak with Jan Eggland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council,
0:32.0	about getting in desperately needed relief and
0:35.0	shock-fouer the Moon.
0:37.0	I've already had me as here
0:40.0	so back at man, if he was immunity.
0:42.0	Haitian women exploited by UN peacekeepers.
0:46.0	Paula Newton reports from there.
0:48.0	Plus...
0:49.0	We're now...
0:50.0	Actually what I think is quite a dangerous situation in Europe.
0:53.0	In Europe, the far right moves into the mainstream.
0:56.0	Harry Streinovas and talks to political scientist Catherine Fieski. Yes, he. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York.
1:20.0	President Joe Biden has marked one year since the death of Masa Amini
1:24.8	saying that she inspired massive women life freedom protests all across the world.
1:30.6	Amini died after being manhandled by Iran's morality police, her crime not wearing her
1:36.0	hijab properly.
1:38.0	Back then, Iran's only Nobel laureate, a woman, Shirin Ebe, had this advice for the fundamentalist regime.
1:45.6	Do you have a message for Ayatollah harmony?
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