In mid-September, Iran’s “morality police,” a force that monitors public adherence to the Islamic dress codes enacted in 1981, arrested and took 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish Iranian visiting family in Tehran, to a government-run “re-education center| The Soufan Center
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February 11, 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, and regime leaders are celebrating their grip on power despite major upheavals over the course of their rule, including the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, the 2009 Green Movement uprising, and the U.S. imposition and re-imposition of crippling sanctions on the country| The Soufan Center
The protests that broke out on September 16 and expanded nationwide after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was held in custody are still showing significant strength. At times, the uprising has waned briefly in response to regime repression, only to flare up| The Soufan Center
