Inside the Iranian Uprising

June. 29,2023

Rating：

7.7

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Protest Iran Feminist Activism

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In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.

Ali Khamenei as Self (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini as Self (archive footage)

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran as Self (archive footage)

Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Self

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