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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

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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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, Life, Freedom" (Zan, Zendegi, Azadi) is the rallying cry. The regime's brutality is severe, suppressing protests through executions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) acts as an octopus, maintaining control across society. Defiance continues today, demonstrated by women actively ignoring state-mandated dress codes.
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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Nilo Tabrizi, the co-author with her colleague

0:30.3

and friend Fatima Jammapur, for the sun after long nights. The story of Iran's women-led

0:37.3

uprising. You've read around the story of Iran's women-led uprising.

0:38.0

You've read around the edges of the suspect nuclear weapons program and the war in the Middle East that young women, especially Gen Z, but the millennials joined in as well, have been protesting the regime's brutality at least in September of 2022 and the murder of a young

0:57.3

Azeri woman, Kurdish woman, Gina, on the streets of Tehran for no reason whatsoever. However,

1:06.6

what I learned from the telling by Nidu and Fatima is that the rising has been going on for a long time.

1:13.1

Lots of protests all around Iran, not just in Tehran.

1:18.1

And the police, the authorities, the Basij, the IRGC, always meet it with sadism, brutality and murder.

1:27.4

Who are those people, Nilu?

1:30.0

Where do they come from to use batons on young women in the streets and beat them to death?

1:37.0

Or to open fire on a funeral procession?

1:39.6

Where do they get them?

1:41.9

So it's interesting.

1:44.8

In Iran, there's a few different competing policing systems.

1:47.4

You have the national police.

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