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Nick Baker and Annabelle Quince for Rear Vision

Iranian women are fighting for their rights. They've had to fight for them for generations

The women of Iran are rising up — again.

Since the recent death of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country's morality police, Iranian towns and cities have erupted in protest.

These protests have become one of the greatest challenges to Iran's political establishment since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Authorities have unleashed a brutal crackdown, including issuing the first death sentence to an unidentified protester. 

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