The fight for women’s rights in Iran is a global fight (Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe cuts her hair in protest over death of Mahsa Amini, 28 September). Women tend to be at the forefront of movements for political change. They are the last to get rights and the first to have them taken away, as we are seeing in the US.
The Iranian revolution started in many quarters as a women’s movement before it was hijacked by other concerns – which is not so different from the #MeToo movement and, to an extent, Black Lives Matter. Hopefully, like those movements, things won’t fizzle out before effecting serious, lasting change for the actors who have worked hard to bring it about.
