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Iran’s Protest Movement and Its Future

The Intercept Briefing

CHAPTER

How Do You Feel When You Have to Go to the Back of a Bus?

When she lived in Iran, one of the things that as an American citizen was really hard for me was I would take a bus to work in central Tehran. The women's section and the men's section of the public transportation was cut off by a metal pole. And so that's a very subtle way of keeping people down and telling people that not only are they not worth anything, but that they are cattle being pushed to the back of a vehicle. "I think it is exhausting to have to be exceptional every day"

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