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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
World
Shirin Ebadi

The Iranian Feminist Movement... Why and How?

High school students remove the veil and raise the victory sign in Tehran last October (Twitter)

In September, a girl named Mahsa was murdered by government agents. Her death was like throwing a lit match into a petrol tank. People took to the streets in more than a hundred Iranian cities and demanded the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.

Did all the protesters know Mahsa? No, she was not a well-known figure for her murder to cause such outrage.

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