FROM THE VAULT: Iran's Morality Police & Mahsa Amini | #354
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With 2026 bringing widespread anti-government protests to Iran, and the government’s brutal crackdowns leading to thousands of people killed and arrested, we’re rereleasing our coverage on the current regime – and how we got here – through the lens of Mahsa Amini’s murder.
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On 19 May 2024, Ebrahim Raisi – “The Butcher of Tehran” and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran – died in a helicopter crash. Immediately, theories of who had killed him and why, swept the worlds’ media.
But while his passing inspired this episode, we’re also going to look at his many thousands of victims – and in particular how his actions led to the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in 2022. It was a single death which sparked protests that challenged the mullahs of Iran like never before.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Suruti, I'm Hannah, and welcome to Red-Handed. |
| 0:12.5 | Do you want to know a fact that I learned today? |
| 0:15.2 | Always. |
| 0:15.9 | Absolutely nothing to do with what we're about to talk about. |
| 0:18.7 | Not at all. |
| 0:20.0 | But I have to say it now or I'll forget. |
| 0:22.2 | Our producer Alex came out to when he was like, |
| 0:23.4 | did you know that your constituency |
| 0:25.3 | is one of four in the entirety of the United Kingdom |
| 0:29.0 | that has a Pret but not a Greggs? |
| 0:32.8 | Well, there you go. |
| 0:35.2 | That is a great fact. |
| 0:37.4 | Thanks for sharing it. The Pret's very new also. We had neither for ages. Deprived times. So yes, as Hannah did say, that has nothing to do. Literally nothing. What does have something to do with it is a joke I made the other day. I was writing Chernobyl and you were writing this. Yes. And we were on the phone. |
| 0:56.0 | And I was like, but what's worse? |
| 0:58.8 | Uranium or Iranians. |
| 1:00.2 | It's when they've got both. |
| 1:01.8 | Which they kind of do. |
| 1:03.9 | Thanks, Obama. |
| 1:05.9 | So yes. |
| 1:11.7 | Although this has nothing to do with Greggs or Pret, like kind of getting a new Pratt, it is very recent. |
| 1:13.4 | Can I have that as my segue? |
| 1:14.5 | Yes, great. |
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