Iran Has Never Seen a Protest Movement Like This

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : There are incredibly high rates of literacy in Iran.
63% : The whole world should be in support of the people of Iran right now.
56% : Iran has a very young population -- something like 80 percent of the country is under the age of 40.
51% : People had the streets, but that was mostly centered in Tehran in urban centers.
51% : It makes me wonder what can actually be done to help the people in Iran and hold the Iranian government to account.
49% : We often hear that there are more women graduates from university than there are men in Iran.
47% : And protests over hijab -- the modest clothing required of all women in Iran -- have been going on since the 1970s.
47% : What we have to note is that the true head of state in Iran is the supreme leader, and he is unelected and accountable to no one.
43% : Arrests like this are not uncommon in Iran; neither are deaths in custody.
43% : What we need is robust action to ensure that the violations that are happening in Iran are documented by an independent, impartial body that's either housed outside of the U.N. Human Rights Office or within it.
40% : In the weeks since, protests have roiled Iran, with many rallygoers carrying pictures of Amini.
40% : On Wednesday's episode of What Next, I spoke with Gissou Nia, director of the Atlantic Council's Strategic Litigation Project, about how Mahsa Amini's death has led thousands of people to exercise their freedom of expression in Iran -- and where that may lead.
39% : The protests in Iran this month started after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini decided to visit Tehran.
38% : It has been striking to me to look at pictures of the protesters and contrast them with pictures of who is actually running Iran, because the protesters are young women and the leaders are older men with beards.
32% : There was a sense the election was stolen -- and I should note that presidential elections in Iran are neither free nor fair.
29% : Over the past couple decades, protests have become a common part of what's happening in Iran: over elections that are fraudulent, over economic hardships.
28% : The background is that during the November 2019 protests, Iran shut off the Internet for up to two weeks in some provinces, so nobody was getting videos to show what horrors were happening there.

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