Quick Glance: Remembering Mahsa Amini: One Year After Her Death in Iran
- Protesters display signs with Mahsa Amini's face.
- A year after Mahsa Amini passed away in police custody, her family reflects on the young woman known as Jina.
- Mahsa Amini, or Jina as she was called by her family and friends, was a quiet and reserved individual.
- The Amini family finds solace in the fact that their daughter's death has inspired Iranians to seek change.
Quick Glance: Iran's President: "Protests failed," but many women do not wear headscarves
- However, the reality in Iran differs from what Raisi portrays.
- The 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution was celebrated in Iran amid protests against the system.
- The monarchy was overthrown in February 1979 after an uprising led by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
- This year's Islamic Revolution anniversary was overshadowed by protests that have been going on since the fall.
- Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pardoned tens of thousands of prisoners on the anniversary of the revolution.
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Quick Glance: Why Are Iranians Protesting Again?
- "They Have Nothing to Lose": Why Are Iranian Youth Rising Up Again?
- During Mr. Raisi's predecessor, the reformist Hassan Rouhani's reign, the morality police were discouraged from enforcing Iran's frequently draconian regulations against women, including the demand that they wear the hijab in public in the right fashion, completely covering their hair.
- This resulted in young women exhibiting more hair, especially in religiously strict cities like Qum.
- Women who choose to wear the hijab have started solidarity campaigns on social media, criticizing the strict enforcement of the laws, and a prominent religious leader has stated the morality police are just driving young women away from Islam.
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