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Can protesters topple the Iranian regime? With Fatemeh Shams

As protests in Iran continue, sparked by the death of Masha Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s hijab law, Ido Vock speaks to the Iranian academic Fatemeh Shams. They discuss how these protests have grown, the history of patriarchy in Iran and whether this could be the beginning of the end of the Iranian regime. Read more: How <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2022/10/mahsa-amini-death-iran-protests-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mahsa Amini’s</a> death set Iran on fireIran’s silencing of <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/10/iran-elnaz-rekabi-climber-silencing-protests" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elnaz Rekabi</a> proves the protests are working Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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