99: The Iran Protests in Context
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On September 13th, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family, having traveled from Irans\\u2019 Kurdish region. While in Tehran she was stopped by Iran\\u2019s morality police for improperly wearing her hijab, or head covering. Three days after her arrest she was dead. In the days and weeks following her death Iran has seen nationwide protests, and while protests are not a particularly new thing in Iran, what\\u2019s unprecedented about these protests are the calls not simply for reforms but for the toppling of Iran\\u2019s theocratic regime, a regime that has been in power since the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Assal Rad is a historian and research director at the National Iranian American Council. She\\u2019s also author of \\u201cThe State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran".\\xa0
Pouya Alimagham is a professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of, \\u201cContesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings.\\u201d
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