Iran's Women-Led Uprising: Origins, Brutality, and Defiance. Nilo Tabrizy discusses how the Iranian women-led uprising, detailed in For the Sun After Long Nights, was triggered by the 2022 murder of Mahsa Amini by the morality police. The slogan "Woman, L
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
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| 0:24.0 | I'm John Betzer, spending a moment talking to a co-author of a new book for the sun after long |
| 0:30.2 | nights. Poetry. Iran values poetry. The story of Iran's women-led uprising since September of 2022 when a young woman |
| 0:40.3 | whom is affectionately now called Gina was murdered by the police, by the authorities, for her hair, |
| 0:48.8 | how did we get here? Where does this come from, this brutality towards young women in the streets of Tehran? |
| 0:55.8 | Nelu, we need to start somewhere, so I say, Muhammad Mossadegh, the prime minister for a few years in the early 1950s, |
| 1:06.3 | looking to transform Iran from the, what should have to say, autocracy into a republic. |
| 1:16.1 | He was pulled out of office by the CIA and the MI6. |
| 1:21.3 | Why? |
| 1:22.1 | And is that the beginning of the trouble? |
| 1:25.9 | Well, I think it's hard to talk to an Iranian and say, what is the beginning of the trouble? |
| 1:30.7 | Because we will go back centuries and centuries. |
| 1:33.0 | We have a very long view of history. |
| 1:34.4 | So I'm tempted to go back even further. |
| 1:36.3 | But I think this will make sense for the listeners to start here. |
| 1:39.4 | There's a few competing theories about why Mossadegh was removed from power, why there was a coup against him. |
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