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What Iranian Protesters Need Now

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What began as a revolt in the wake of an overstep by Iran’s morality police has evolved into a mass movement calling for “death to the dictator.” Protests in Iran are nothing new, but these demonstrations strike at the heart of the Islamic Republic’s repressive regime. Could the nascent movement change a sclerotic regime? 

Guest: Gissou Nia, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. 

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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Elena Schwartz, Carmel Delshad, and Madeline Ducharme, with help from Anna Phillips and Jared Downing. 


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Before we talk about protests in Iran, I want to tell you how those protests started,

0:42.6

with a young woman's decision to visit Tehran. Her name was Masa Amini, she traveled with

0:48.2

her brother. She was reportedly coming out of a subway station when she was spotted

0:53.0

by Iran's morality police and then escorted into a van. They thought she was dressed

0:58.4

immodestly. Maybe a wisp of hair was out of place. Maybe her hijab was drooping.

1:04.4

What happens then is very disputed, but what ended up is that she died. So she was brought

1:11.2

in and then she died. And this is a 22 year old woman. This is a 22 year old woman with

1:16.7

no pre-existing health conditions. I asked Gisuniya to tell me Masa's story. She's a human

1:22.8

rights attorney. She's Iranian-American. She says getting arrested like this is not

1:27.8

all that uncommon. It's not uncommon for people to die in custody in Iran, either. But

1:33.5

what is uncommon is what happened next. Then there was a photo of her in a hospital bed

1:40.6

looking beat up, you know, on a ventilator, sort of an air device to help her breathe.

1:47.2

And it was just absolutely shocking to see this young beautiful woman in the hospital bed

1:52.1

like that. And that's the photo that won viral. Essentially, you know, there were

2:01.4

medical doctors who were examining, albeit from afar, were examining the photos. Notice

2:06.9

that she had blood pooled around her ears, that she had the signs of a concussion and

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