Suzanne Maloney on the Protests in Iran
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It's been a tumultuous few weeks in Iran with the death of a young woman at the hands of the morality police leading to street protests all over the country, calls for the death of the supreme leader, and widespread opposition to compulsory wearing of the hijab. To chew it all over and figure out where this is all going, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Suzanne Maloney, the vice president for Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and a long-time Iran policy scholar. They talked about whether these protests are the latest round of something we've seen before or whether there's something different going on, about the regime's reaction and whether it's connected to unrest elsewhere in the world, about how the United States can constructively respond, and about where it is all going from here. Note: Wittes incorrectly states that Maloney is vice president of Brookings Governance instead of Foreign Policy Studies.
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| 1:09.0 | A young woman jumped to top a utility box on a street in Tehran |
| 1:13.0 | and began waving her her hijab like a flag. |
| 1:16.0 | She was arrested. |
| 1:17.0 | There were several others who followed in her wake and it became something of a meme on social media |
| 1:23.0 | that these women who were seeking to assert themselves on this issue of compulsory hijab clearly resonated. |
| 1:31.0 | And I think it was, you know, it's not about clothing, it's about official repression |
| 1:36.0 | and the extent to which that kind of repression from the Islamic Republic tends to fall disproportionately on Iranian women. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast October 7th, 2022. |
| 1:52.0 | It's been a tumultuous few weeks in Iran with the death of a young woman |
| 1:58.0 | at the hands of the morality police leading to street protests all over the country |
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