Shamal Mirza says the current wave of protests are unlike others seen in the country before now.
Shamal Mirza ON 16 SEPTEMBER 2022, the Iranian ‘morality’ police arrested a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Jina Amina, in the city of Tehran for unsatisfactorily covering her hair under the rules of Islamic Sharia law.
These words have a philosophical backbone and take their rhetoric from the writings of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdulla Ocalan, who is now serving a life sentence in Turkey. According to Ocalan, freedom is meaningless until women are totally free. The nature of the revolt led many Iranians to believe it could be the beginning of the end of four decades of brutality, injustice, deprivation and suppression in the Islamic Republic. For some reason, I believe the same.
Iranians have been holding daily protests anti-regime continue with intensity, despite brutal suppression by the Islamic Republic Source: SalamPix/PA Another pillar of power, universities, have likewise been lost by the Iranian state to the people of Iran this time. Finally, and most importantly, the regime has also been built on a pillar of religion and emboldened through the influence of religious institutions. These institutions combined with the use of coercive force have created a machine of control over Iranian society.
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