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Woman, Life, Freedom: The Origins of the Uprising in Iran - Dissent Magazine

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The massive protests in Iran, fueled by the audacity of young women and children, are rooted in over a century of struggle.

This article will appear in Dissent ‘s Winter 2023 issue, out in January. To get your copy, subscribe now . In March, 1979, urban Iranian women and girls and their male supporters took part in a week of demonstrations in Tehran, beginning on International Women’s Day, to protest the new Islamist regime’s edict compelling women to wear hijabs. The demonstrators expressed a deep sense of betrayal at the direction being taken by the Iranian revolution, then just weeks old. “In the dawn of freedom, we have no freedom,” they chanted. Their ranks grew by the day, reaching at least 50,000. The

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