'Women, life, liberty': Iran's future is female

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The ongoing protests are unparalleled and mark a watershed moment for Iran and possibly the Middle East as a whole: a women's revolution that spans class and ethnic divides and hopes to tear down patriarchy manifested in its most violent form.
58% : Sayeh Isfahani is an advocate, journalist, and Internet researcher with years of experience working in Iran, including work related to the LGBTQI community.
52% : Fast forward to mid-September in the current day, and another name was carved deep into the collective psyche of people in Iran and later the world: Mahsa Amini.
49% : A battle of symbolsDespite all that is novel about the current uprising, it should yet be seen as another link in the long chain of battles for freedom and justice in Iran.
46% : The post-election protests, which resulted in dozens killed and hundreds imprisoned, rocked Iran for months and reshaped the nation for years to come.
44% : It has galvanized all classes and social groups, with protests erupting in eighty-five cities across Iran, although this has come at the bitter price of dozens killed and thousands arrested.
44% : This is evident by the chant, "women, life, liberty" -- the battle cry of Kurds in their decades-old fight against the forces of darkness, from the Islamic Republic to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which has echoed through Iran.
42% : Women, young and old, have been at the forefront of the uprising, just like every other protest in Iran over the past decades.
42% : While, previously, there were long gaps between major uprisings, since December 2017, Iran has been rocked by protests every few months that have made international news headlines.
42% : In turn, despite reoccurring bursts of socio-political movements rooted in civil society, the epicenter of protest and dissent in Iran had mostly shifted to the working classes.
41% :Subjected to decades of persecution in Iran -- from mass executions to marginalization and cultural erasure -- Kurds have a strong culture of resistance and robust networks that can organize protests and general strikes in days, if not hours.
39% :Since 2017, amid a growing sense of anger and frustration, Iran has been the scene of reoccurring rounds of protests that, in most cases, were led by working classes and were triggered by economic grievances, including the government's overnight decisions to jack up fuel and food prices and Iran's ecological collapse and water crisis.
38% : Every time people in Iran demand change, the Islamic Republic bludgeons them with tattered slogans that the regime will not allow the country to "deviate" from the "divine" path set by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic.
37% : And, above all, when Amini died, her family marked her fresh grave with a short line that united all of Iran: "Dear Jina you won't die.
37% :Since then, Amini's grave and Kurdistan province have turned into a beating heart pumping blood and rage through the veins of Iran.
37% : Image: Women carry flags and pictures during a protest over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in Iran, in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli, northeastern Syria September 26, 2022.
30% : Since then, Iran has erupted like a volcano in protest over her death.

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