Who can watch the stirring videos circulating worldwide of the extraordinarily brave young female protesters in Iran, some of them schoolgirls, without fearing for their safety? The most recent clip shows teenagers in their school taking off their headscarves and angrily chanting “Get lost” to a visiting member of the Basij military force.
There have been protests, we are told, in 80 towns and cities across Iran, demonstrations that exploded after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, fell into a coma after being detained by the morality police in Tehran and died in mid-September. Her family alleged the police beat her to death, while they insist she died of a heart attack.
