The Uprising in Iran Began After the Death of a Young Kurdish Iranian Woman

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The current uprising began after Gina Masa Amini a young Kurdish Iranian woman died in morality police custody after being arrested for not properly covering her hair. The immediate spark for this now several week long protest movement in Iran was as you said the death ofMasa Amini and she's first in a coma and then she dies. This sparks the movement that has now really captured that has spread to every single province of Iran have spread to virtually every city every corner and all over the universities across the country.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush's War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end with the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police and the current mass protest movement that erupted in response. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our vast archives and the rest of this series at thedigradio.com Buy Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win by Helen Shiller haymarketbooks.org/books/1952-daring-to-struggle-daring-to-win