Voices

Young Iranian protesters explain what keeps them going

I’m a teenaged girl. And I want a future. I want happiness. I want a good life. I want a good home, good car, good – I don’t know – husband, maybe. I cannot have better future in this country, in this situation. So I think it’s for freedom. It’s for have a better future. It’s for have a better days. We don’t have them. So I just want a happiness and I don’t have it. No one have it…

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Iran’s protest movement and its future

A month and a half ago, protests erupted in Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. The morality police regulate Iran’s strict dress code for women. And as a result of Mahsa Amini’s killing, protesters began pouring into the streets without the mandated head coverings…

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