'The Rings of Power' Star Nazanin Boniadi on the Protests in Iran and What Comes Next

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : My mother was three steps behind us, walking down the street in Tehran.
47% : With the permission of a father or a judge, a man can still marry a girl in Iran who is as young as nine.
45% : And how does it feel to watch the protests in Iran unfold from there?
45% : They're told what they can study and where they can work, and what you're seeing in the streets of Iran is people women bravely starting the first feminist revolution that we've seen.
44% : And yet, you've seen the brave and courageous women of Iran fight for four decades, and they are more educated -- they outnumber men in Iran, as far as higher education.
42% : I actually turned 13 while we were visiting Iran, and I have very fond memories of the people and the culture, but it was extremely jarring to me to be forced to wear a hijab at that age.
41% : As women haven taken to the streets to speak out against Iran's hijab law and other forces of gendered repression in their home country, Vogue spoke to British-Iranian actor and activist Nazanin Boniadi about watching the protests from afar, the link between reproductive rights in the U.S. and bodily autonomy in Iran, and how to support the protestors.
23% : Protests have raged in Iran and across the world since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the western city of Saqqez, died in Tehran after being detained by the morality police there this month.

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