A year after protests in Iran erupted over a Kurdish woman’s death, initiating the largest uprising against the country’s clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, activists continue to fight.
movement started after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was detained by the country’s morality police for loosely wearing her hijab,“I knew there was lots of tension, lots of anger, frustration under the skin of cities in Iran, but nobody knew when that was going to burst,” Elahe Amani, president of the, said. “The protests have pointed out to the Islamic Republic that the essence of the movement is the rising of younger people, with women being at the forefront against authoritarianism.”.
This opposition to the Iranian regime’s authoritarianism is not only happening societally but also at home, according to Amani. Resistance continues daily in Iran. One form that takes is through not abiding by mandatory hijab rules. As a response to the long-standing resistance, the Iranian government’s crackdown has increased throughto identify those who are not abiding by their hijab laws. If detected, people then receive text messages as warnings of the consequences, according to a
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