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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Weeks Of Protests In Iran Against "Morality Police" And Repression

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Martha sits down with Adjunct Fellow at the Middle East Institute Nazee Moinian to discuss the recent protests in Iran sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of the Iranian "Morality Police".   Nazee explains the arbitrary rules that govern women in the country, what these recent insurrections say about the direction the nation is heading and shares her thoughts on what western nations can do to help fight the oppression facing the Iranian people.  Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the Untold Story podcast.

0:49.0

I'm Martha McCallum, and I am so thrilled to be joined today by my friend Nazimuanian.

0:52.5

She is an adjunct fellow at the Middle East Institute.

0:57.3

She is a PhD at the University of St. Andrews in Iranian studies. She has a degree from Colombia. She has written and done documentaries about

1:03.5

Iran, about international politics, about foreign policy. She's been an advisor to presidential

1:08.6

campaigns. She is an extraordinary academic.

1:12.8

And she combines both her life experience as an Iranian and also her experience now as someone who lives in this country and has,

1:21.9

lives with her husband and her children in New York City and has raised them here.

1:25.9

So, Naze, it's wonderful to have you here

1:28.3

to talk about everything that's happening in Iran right now. It's so good to be back, Mara. Thank you for

1:33.0

having me. So, you know, I want to go back to this date of September 16th when 22-year-old Masa Amini

1:40.2

was tragically killed. She was arrested by the morality police. She was visiting Tehran.

1:46.1

She didn't live in Tehran. She had only just arrived. And her hijib was not on correctly, as I

1:53.5

understand it. Some of her hair was showing. And the morality police arrested her, took her away,

1:58.7

and she died in their custody, which unleashed this anger in the streets

2:03.9

of Tehran that has snowballed in such an extraordinary way. And it has the whole world watching and

2:10.1

wondering, what does this mean? What does it mean for the mullahs? What does it mean for the regime

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