REBELLION IN IRAN
Gudrun Harrer in conversation with Azadeh Zamirirad
REBELLION IN IRAN
Iranians have been taking to the streets against the regime since mid-September. What began as outrage over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police is by no means just an uprising by women against the dress code in the Islamic Republic. The protests have affected different sectors of society and parts of the country, all united by their rejection of a coercive order under an Islamic guise. The regime is reacting with repression and attempts to portray demonstrations in the peripheral areas, especially in Kurdistan, as „separatism“.
Azadeh Zamirirad is a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. She works there as deputy head of the Middle East and Africa research group. Her research focuses on Iran and the nuclear negotiations.
Gudrun Harrer, Senior Editor, Der Standard; Lecturer for Modern History and Politics of the Near and Middle East at the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna