Doubletake: Three Questions

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🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This is the story of two Iranian women who brought about a revolution in one of the world’s most notorious prisons–just not the kind involving protests and violence. It all came down to the courage to answer a few questions from a judge.Support sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth at wng.org/donate (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-1467414/episodes/e-116647184/edit/wng.org/donate).Support sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth at wng.org/donate. Music licensed via podcastmusic.com from ALIBI, 5 Alarm, AMG, Atomica Music, Manhattan Production Music, and Strike Audio. News clips from ABCNews, the BBC, ITVNews, CBCNews, PBS, NBCNews, and NPR.Ambient sound from Sound Effects Pod and Stockmusic. “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus” from http://youtube.com/instrumentalworship

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0:00.0	From world radio, this is Double Take.
0:04.0	My name is Marzia Amirizadeh, and I'm originally from Iran.
0:08.6	Marzia, or Marzia as her friends call her, is a tall slim woman, long brown hair and
0:14.1	clear all of skin.
0:15.8	She grew up in a small city in Sothiastron, Iran.
0:18.6	I was born just a few months before the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
0:24.1	In the summer of 1979, radical Islamic socialists toppled the Shah of Iran and imposed strict
0:30.2	Sharia law.
0:31.5	The world got another reminder of just how brutal life under Sharia law can be on September
0:36.0	13th, 2022.
0:40.0	That day, Iran's morality police in Tehran arrested Masa Amini.
0:53.8	She was a shy, 22-year-old Kurdish girl.
0:56.6	She wanted to be a lawyer.
0:58.1	Here's her cousin on ITV news.
1:10.0	The morality police prowled the streets to enforce Sharia law's strict dress code.
1:15.5	Women must cover pretty much their entire bodies down to their wrists and ankles.
1:19.9	The police said Masa was wearing a hijab improperly and wearing tight pants, so they threw
1:25.7	Masa into a police van and beat her over the head, repeatedly.
1:30.3	After she arrived at the detention center, she collapsed.
1:33.8	Masa died in hospital three days later, five days before her 23rd birthday.
1:39.4	Tehran erupted.
1:42.2	At her funeral, women ripped the headscalves off in solidarity.
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