Ep. 20 | Does Iran Fear Women? (ft. Yalda Haghighat, an Iranian Woman) - a podcast by new/gen

In this episode, Host Sanika Agarwalla invites her Iranian peer, Yalda Haghighat to take a deeper look into the women's rights protests taking place in Iran. On September 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman, suspiciously died after being arrested by Iranian police for showing too much hair under her hijab. While this occurrence is not new to the people of Iran, it is a call to action: the people of Iran have since banded together to protest Iran's government, an autocratic regime. Agarwalla and Haghighat discuss the validity of the Islamic Republic of Iran's involvement in the population's personal lives, given that it is a theocracy. Haghighat shares insightful knowledge of the oppression Iranian people face every day, from bans on parties to inaccess to the internet. The two ask: how far will Iran's government go to maintain power? Haghighat reveals that the Iranian government often shuts down schools during times of protest, posing an even bigger question: Does Iran's government fear educated women? 

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