Protests Erupt in Iranian Cities After Woman's Death in Custody

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Mr. Raisi arrived in New York on Monday for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, where he is scheduled to deliver a speech on Wednesday.
44% : "It is what sets Iran apart from other Muslim nations and it is the means of terrorizing the population -- women -- without a cause."
43% : Like previous waves of nationwide protests in Iran, the demonstrations were set off by a specific event -- Ms. Amini's death -- but quickly broadened to take up a long litany of grievances, with crowds calling for an end to the Islamic Republic, according to videos shared by Iranian journalists.
42% :"We are witnessing a nationwide reaction, really like a George Floyd moment for the national conscience that can no longer bear the violence and the logic of the ruling class in killing ordinary citizens," said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based advocacy group.
41% : The demonstrations, led mostly by women, broke out in more than a dozen cities and on university campuses in Tehran.
41% :Iran's main reformist political party, Hezb-i Etemad-i Melli, issued a statement calling for an end to the morality police and demanding that Iran's Parliament repeal the hijab law, a first for a political group within Iran.
39% : In Tehran, men and women chanted "we will fight and take our country back," including students on campuses where fear of arrests, which can lead to a lifetime ban from higher education, has kept a lid on dissent for at least a year.
37% : But Roya Boroumand, the executive director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, a Washington-based advocacy group focused on human rights in Iran, said it was unlikely that the law, or the morality police, would be abolished.
34% : Antigovernment protests erupted in cities across Iran on Monday in response to a young woman's death in the custody of the country's morality police, with security forces firing on crowds in the northwest and killing four men, according to three Iran-focused human rights organizations.
31% : They were prompted by the death on Friday of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested three days earlier in Tehran for allegedly violating Iran's hijab law, which requires women to cover their hair and wear loosefitting robes.
30% : On Twitter, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken called on Iran to "end its systemic persecution of women and to allow peaceful protest," adding that the United States mourned Ms. Amini along with the Iranian people.

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