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What Next: What Iranian Protesters Need Now

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 25 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. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Elena Schwartz, Carmel Delshad, and Madeline Ducharme, with help from Anna Phillips and Jared Downing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.4

with a young woman's decision to visit Tehran.

0:15.8

Her name was Masa Amini.

0:17.6

She traveled with her brother.

0:19.5

She was reportedly coming out of a subway station when she was spotted by Iran's morality

0:24.1

police and then escorted into a van.

0:27.1

They thought she was dressed immodestly.

0:29.8

Maybe a whisp of hair was out of place.

0:32.0

Maybe her hijab was drooping.

0:34.4

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

0:40.6

So she was brought in and then she died.

0:43.3

And this is a 22 year old woman.

0:45.2

This is a 22 year old woman with no pre-existing health conditions.

0:49.3

I asked Gisuniya to tell me Masa's story.

0:52.5

She's a human rights attorney.

0:53.8

She's Iranian-American.

0:55.8

She says getting arrested like this is not all that uncommon.

0:59.4

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

1:03.4

But what is uncommon is what happened next.

1:06.8

Then there was a photo of her in a hospital bed looking beat up on a ventilator, sort

1:14.5

of an air device to help her breathe.

1:17.2

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

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