On September 16, 2022, twenty-two-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini died in police custody after she was arrested by the so-called morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating mandatory hijab. Shortly after, tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest her death and call for the Islamic Republic’s demise. These protests spread across all of Iran’s thirty-one provinces, giving birth to a new movement in the country.

This page aims to take stock of the ongoing protest movement against the clerical establishment and provide insights into the lasting impact of these events on Iran’s sociopolitical fabric.

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