Recently in Iran’s largest city, Tehran, Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested by Iran’s “morality police” for allegedly wearing her government-mandated hijab inappropriately. She was beaten, and three days later, she died. The response from Iranians, and young Iranian women, in particular, was swift. Now, what was at first viewed as a protest appears to be spreading into a new revolution in Iran, the likes of which the country hasn’t seen in over forty years.
