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François PICARD

Iran's youth rise up: Can women's rights movement lead to change?

THE DEBATE © FRANCE 24

Call it Act Two of Iran's protest movement. Teenagers and in particular teenage girls are defying Iran's repressive theocracy. Their daring is contagious. Week Three of the movement has seen fewer mass demonstrations than during the initial outrage over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police. Instead, we're seeing more targeted acts of protests, even strikes. 

Wednesday's siege of several university campuses serves as a reminder that the regime has seen off a long list of movements, with activists killed or locked up for years at a time. Five decades into Iran's Islamic revolution, will this time be any different?

We ask about accounts of massacres and why this movement resonates so strongly beyond Iran's borders. We also ask our panel about calls for sanctions against a regime that's... already under sanctions. 

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