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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. In September, mass movements challenging the Islamic Republic

broke out after Zina Masa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman, died in the custody of Morality

Police. Amini was arrested for improperly covering her hair, according to the religious

strictures imposed upon women by the government. The result is the third in a series of mass movements

that have periodically broken out since 2009. Protests that, in some ways, echo those that powered

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