“Mahsa Amini. Could this be the one? Could hers be the name that leads to seismic change,” writes Farshad Askari.
A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration on Sept. 20, 2022, in Istanbul in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's morality police.As an Iranian American watching the dramatic events unfold in Iran, I’m afraid to hold my breath. For I have seen this narrative play out before. The Green Movement protests of Iran in 2009 due to election fraud claims. The protests of 2019 in Iran due to fuel costs and food shortages.
Due in some measure to the mass casualties of the Iran-Iraq war that followed the 1979 revolution, 60% of Iran’s population is 30 and younger. While those Iranians have never known the Iran that their parents enjoyed before 1979, they’ve seen images in family albums and heard stories from older relatives of a time when Iran enjoyed much of the same liberties and economic advantages as Western nations. The revolution of 1979 foisted strict fundamentalist Islamic codes onto the country.
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