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Iran’s Protest Movement and Its Future

The Intercept Briefing

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The Role of Women in Iranian Revolutionary History

The author's family came over left Iran and sort of went back and forth between Iran and the US throughout the 20th century from the mid 1950s. Her parents met at Berkeley in the end of the 60s and they really came together as part of the anti-Shah movement that was pushing for the Shah to leave Iran. My aunt, Manos Afghami, who just published a beautiful, her own beautiful memoir about the women's movement in Iran and the global south called the other side of silence. So you had two sides of different movements. And so there was that sort of that division I was talking about. They are, we see them still today, but at least in

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