The initial protests were around women's issues and to ask for justice for women and this

centrality of women in these protests is carried through is also a very different and very

unique characteristic of this protest because we've never had a situation like this where the entire

country rises up in support of a woman.

Hello, welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

So you may have seen in the news over the last six to eight weeks these remarkable images coming

out of Iran protests, street protests, violent crackdowns of those street protests,

protests that have been happening all over the country actually not localizing anyone,

placed particularly. They've been happening through marches, they've been happening on campuses,

remarkable images of women particularly very sort of like flagrantly taking off the hijab or

cutting their hair in public. And you know, this has gotten a fair amount of play in American news,

but not a ton. And I actually had a friend of mine who is Iranian American whose family

fled Iran, you know, ask me, you know, why isn't this a bigger deal in the American media?

And I sort of thought about it. And I think there's sort of a few things. One is it's a pretty hairy

situation for American Western journalists to be in Iran right now. And I think particularly

after what happened in Russia where things got very, very, very scary for American journalists,

there's a real trepidation worry about having your reporters in places that might sort of suddenly

and violently crack down on them. So there's that. That means if you don't have people in the ground,

then it's harder to do reporting. It's also harder to verify a lot of the incredible user-generated

video that's coming out of Iran, which I think has also been like a little bit of an obstacle.

I know when we've tried to do it on the show, you want to kind of show the most remarkable

dramatic stuff, but that could be very hard to run down and verify. You don't want to be putting

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