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Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor's fellow, La Trobe University

Women-led protests in Iran gather momentum - but will they be enough to bring about change?

Protests following the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini have spread to other countries, including Lebanon. Wael Hamzeh/EPA/AAP

As protests in Iran drag on into their fourth week over the violent death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman, there are two central questions.

The first is whether these protests involving women and girls across Iran are different from upheavals in the past, or will simply end the same way with the regime stifling a popular uprising.

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