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Hello,

Welcome to angry planet. I'm Matthew Gault. Jason Fields is out of pocket today.

There's unrest in Iran right now. People have taken to the streets, the internet has been

restricted for security reasons, authorities

say, and there's been clashes with police.

This all started after a young woman, Masha Amini was arrested by Iranian moral police.

She died while in custody. Her death and the

circumstances around it kicked off the current protests, but the unrest is part of

a long continuum of uprising and suppression in Iran. It's as old as the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

With us today to talk about it is Moral Karimi. Karimi is a PhD candidate at the University

of Toronto and the author of the Iranian Green Movement of 2009, reverberating echoes of resistance.

Thank you so much for coming onto the show

and walking us through this.

Thanks for having me.

All right, so we'd like to get basic information out of the way first here for people. So we'd like to get basic information out of the way first here for people that kind of come in and kind of don't know what's going on.

They just know that something's happening in Iran.

Can you tell me more about the death of Amini and why this was the spark?

So I'll start by telling you, Mahsa Amini, that's her legal name, but her real name,

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