Iranian authorities appear to be bracing for a resurgence of popular anger on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody.
in a mid-August report. That month, the independent women's rights group Bidarzani reported raids on several homes by Iranian security forces that resulted in a dozen arrests of women's rights activists and lawyers, it said.
"You can tell the big change is women aren't backing down, and we are letting our hair blow in the wind," one Iranian visiting her family in Tehran told CNBC. She spoke anonymously out of concern for her safety.recent instance reportedly involved "Because a revolution hasn't been set in motion doesn't mean that the conditions on the ground and society haven't somewhat changed and shifted," Sanam Vakil, director of the MENA program at Chatham House, said during a recent podcast on the Iranian protests hosted by the European Council on Foreign Relations.
"As we are getting closer to the anniversary of the 2022 riots, rereading and identifying the nature of last year's events is a necessity … The plotters of this war were the enemies and opponents of the Islamic Revolution, the rule of guardianship," Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' political bureau, wrote in a state media outlet.
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