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France 24
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Lou ROMÉO

Lack of leadership is both a strength and weakness of Iran's protest movement

A screen grab from an Iranian student protest at the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) on October 10, 2022. © ESN / AFP

The anti-government protests that have rocked Iran since Mahsa Amini's death on September 16 are unprecedented in scale and duration. But the protests' lack of a clear leader is proving to be both a strength and a weakness – it makes them harder to repress but also impedes the development of a viable political movement. 

Three months after the start of anti-government protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman visiting Iran, at the hands of the notorious morality police, the Islamic regime has intensified its crackdown on demonstrators.

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