'Women and girls in Iran are not risking their lives in hopes of wearing a mini-skirt to school or office. They are fighting tooth and nail to claim their freedom of choice and their right to live life as they please,' writes Tara Kangarlou
in show of defiance against the regime and in solidarity with Iranians inside the country.
“A few nights ago, I saw two teenage girls near my home and on their way to join the protests,” the journalist said. “One told the other about her mother not wanting her to leave the house out of fear for her daughter’s life: ‘What difference does it make mom? The way things are at present, I don’t feel like I’m living anyway,’ the girl told her friend.”
Their rage is youthful, female-led—and found common cause with an older generation of protestor who after decades of financial, social, and political confinement feel they have nothing more to lose.
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