 September 13th last year, a young woman by the name of Masha Amini, 22 year old from Kurdish part of Iran, was arrested in Tehran by the morality police. Imagine living in a place that have morality police for not wearing her hijab exactly right. Maybe a few strands of hair was sticking out. Maybe she was showing a little bit too much skin according to the police. Three days later she was dead. The official account where she had died of a heart attack, but it was clear that she had been beaten, beaten into a coma. And she died from that beating three days after the arrest. The next day protests started in the Kurdish parts of Iraq, protests against the morality police, against what they had done to this particular individual, to this particular young woman. But soon those protests spread and they spread all over Iran. They spread to almost every city and town in Iran, to every university. And particularly into Iran, many of the universities saw significant massive protests, some of the largest Iran has seen. And the messaging started to change. Slowly the messaging got expanded from beyond this one case to messaging around liberty messaging around freedom messaging not just around ending the morality police and allowing women to wear and indeed in the demonstrations the women were ripping apart the book is throwing them to the ground if you've seen some of the videos you can see young women. As young as 10 girls, often teenagers, taking their brokers off often with their backs to the camera so that they cannot be identified, but sometimes out in the street where their faces can be seen. And standing up to this idea up against this idea that somebody else can dictate what they can or what they cannot wear by September 20 or three days after they already clashes with police. They clashes with the military with the Republican God, Revolutionary God sorry Revolutionary God and with all the different militias and segments and Iranian society that want to oppress and suppress any form of freedom and liberty. September 28. This song went online. It was produced by a singer songwriter by the name of Shevin had you pull. Shevin was before the song was a darling of the regime. He had won a singing competition. Like on all television and want to sing in competition and the regime thought his music was wonderful. Because within a day of this song going up online and being viewed by millions of people. Shevin was arrested. Within three days the song had been viewed by 40 million people. And he was released on Corbeil primarily because I think the regime was afraid of how popular he was and the consequences of keeping him in jail, given how popular it is. The song itself, if you noticed the little tweets underneath it, the song is composed by a basically asked people, why are you protesting, what are the protests about for you. They picked and choose different sentences, different phrases from them and incorporated them into into the song. September 30th in Iran is known today as Bloody Friday, in particular in one city Zahidan and I apologize for butchering the names. The authorities there open fire, killing at least 50 people. To date, at least 500 people have been killed in demonstrations who knows how large the number really is but at least 500 have been killed. And demonstrations have continued since on and off different places, smaller places larger places. They are ongoing, they're ongoing today. Part of the problem is that the Iranian regime has cut off the internet has done everything they can to cut them off on the internet completely. So that it's very difficult to get videos out to get information out to actually know what is going on. On December 4th, the regime claimed that they were disbanding the so-called morality police as a way to appease the demonstrators, demonstrators continues because now the demonstration is not just about the morality police. It's about changing the regime, it's about death to the Ayatollah. It's about a true revolution in terms of liberty and freedom and bringing the ability to vote. And, you know, it's got to the point where I think Puyat, who is from Iran, said a few days ago told me, said, it feels like a moral revolution. This is not just about politics. This is about people are standing up for their own lives, standing up to live the best, you know, lives based on their own choices. And it's not just the young anymore. It's their parents supporting them. It's of course not everybody in society, but it's a growing number of people within Iran are rising up against a theocracy that has ruled since 1979, that has ruled brutally, brutally since 1979. There have been uprisings before in terms of demonstrations and protests and so on, but usually those have been focused on a particular issue like economic stress. Never have there been so many calls, and so consistently across the board, actually replacing the regime for actually seeing the downfall of the Ayatollah. Even religious Iranians now have given up on the concept of a theocracy. Iran today, I think a majority of Iranians and overwhelming majority of Iranians are ready for something new and something different and something better. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. 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