The Women’s Movement in Iran One Year after the Death of Mahsa Amini: A fragile triumph September 12, 2023

Please read my new essay marking one year after the death of Mahsa Amini and the start of the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi movement (“Women, Life, Freedom”) published by Public Seminar here. [ 5 min read.] I reflect on the real but fragile gains of what I called one year ago as Iran’s First Feminist Uprising [You can read the earlier essay here].

Excerpt:

If someone had told me 18 months ago that Iranian women would be walking more or less freely in the streets of Iranian cities without hair coverings or hijab, I simply wouldn’t have believed them. And if someone had told me 18 months ago that the Iranian government would be a belligerent in a European ground war for the first time in Iran’s history—supplying weapons to Russia, entering into a close strategic cooperation with the Russian military, and bolstering its own military capabilities in the process, I would have thought they were joking.

Both of these things have happened.

Read the full essay here.

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Kian