NCRI Women's Committee

The death of Mahsa Amini and Iran protests

September 30, 2022 NCRI Women's Committee Season 1 Episode 14
The death of Mahsa Amini and Iran protests
NCRI Women's Committee
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NCRI Women's Committee
The death of Mahsa Amini and Iran protests
Sep 30, 2022 Season 1 Episode 14
NCRI Women's Committee

Fourteen days past the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, Iran is still engulfed in angry protests. 
Today we’re going to discuss how and why an innocent woman’s death sparked massive protests across the country, jolting the Iranian regime’s pillars of power.
The Guidance patrols’ ruthless brutality against a young woman, fracturing her skull and causing brain hemorrhage by the heavy blows of the baton to her head, acted as a trigger and a spark. 
The powder keg is widespread discontent over the lack of freedoms, the bankrupt economy, corruption of the government, and frequent massive embezzlements, while people’s baskets are empty and poverty spreads with every passing day. This is the pent-up anger of 44 years under the mullahs’ rule.

That’s why young people and women do not let the protests die down after 14 days and keep going despite 300 people killed and 15,000 arrested. They are willing to pay the price to the end. 



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Fourteen days past the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, Iran is still engulfed in angry protests. 
Today we’re going to discuss how and why an innocent woman’s death sparked massive protests across the country, jolting the Iranian regime’s pillars of power.
The Guidance patrols’ ruthless brutality against a young woman, fracturing her skull and causing brain hemorrhage by the heavy blows of the baton to her head, acted as a trigger and a spark. 
The powder keg is widespread discontent over the lack of freedoms, the bankrupt economy, corruption of the government, and frequent massive embezzlements, while people’s baskets are empty and poverty spreads with every passing day. This is the pent-up anger of 44 years under the mullahs’ rule.

That’s why young people and women do not let the protests die down after 14 days and keep going despite 300 people killed and 15,000 arrested. They are willing to pay the price to the end.