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Veteran Iran experts have highlighted one crystal-clear difference between the current nationwide uprising against the clerical regime and previous protests: The revolt over the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16 after she was arrested by the infamous morality police has sustainable momentum.
The morality police seized the young Iranian-Kurd Amini in Tehran because she was not in compliance with the Islamic dress code that mandates she cover her hair with a hijab. The protests started as an act of potent defiance against the regime’s hardcore misogyny and morphed into calls for the abolition of the theocratic state.
Over three months of protests have blanketed Iran’s 31 provinces and resulted in not calls for soggy political reformism (see the Green Movement example of 2009) but rather the dissolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Benjamin Weinthal, a Middle East Forum writing fellow, reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe for Fox News Digital. Follow him on Twitter at @BenWeinthal.
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