While the information of Mahsa Amini’s loss of life in police custody in September 2022 sparked protests throughout Iran, it isn’t the primary time Iranian ladies and ladies have been on the forefront of revolution. 

The vital good points for ladies’s rights underneath the dictator Reza Shah Pahlavi all however disappeared within the 1979 Islamic revolution. But among the highly effective methods ladies are protesting now have their roots in Iran’s wealthy historical past.

We discover how these cultural and historic contexts inform Iranian ladies’s main function within the present protests