99: The Iran Protests in Context

On September 13th, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family, having traveled from Irans' Kurdish region. While in Tehran she was stopped by Iran's morality police for improperly wearing her hijab, or head covering. Three days after her arrest she was dead. In the days and weeks following her death Iran has seen nationwide protests, and while protests are not a particularly new thing in Iran, what's unprecedented about these protests are the calls not simply for reforms but for the toppling of Iran's theocratic regime, a regime that has been in power since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Assal Rad is a historian and research director at the National Iranian American Council. She's also author of " The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran ". Pouya Alimagham is a professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of, " Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings ." Support Latitude Adjustment on Patreon Support our Palestine Podcast Academy

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99: The Iran Protests in Context is an episode from Latitude Adjustment by Eric Maddox.

This episode is 01:15:36 long.

This episode was published on Oct 26, 2022.

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