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If you can understand french or german i highly recommend to watch that doc to understand better what's happening in Iran right now.
Starting in the fall of 2022, the longest wave of protests since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 erupts across Iran, lasting for months. This documentary gives a voice to people who risked their lives to protest and sheds light on the background of the Iranian democracy movements that have repeatedly risen up since 2009.
What is life like in a country where women are arrested by the morality police if their hijab is not worn correctly? Where they are not allowed to go to soccer stadiums? Among others, a young woman who goes to soccer stadiums dressed as a man and then posts the pictures on social media speaks out. The women risk prison sentences, but Iranians are no longer willing to be intimidated. To shed light on the motives and background of the massive protests that swept across Iran from September 2022 to spring 2023, the film goes back to 2009.
At that time, the presidential elections marked a turning point in the population's relationship with the Islamic state. Many Iranians believe that the Islamic Republic manipulated the results. Hopes for reforms within the system were dashed. In the years that followed, bloody protests broke out repeatedly. We see some previously unknown archive footage and interviews with the people who risked their lives.
When the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests began in September 2022, the brutality of the security forces' counterattack reached a new dimension. Hundreds of demonstrators are killed, tortured, mutilated, or blinded. After more than half a year, the regime has initially survived the protests. However, the people portrayed in the film do not give up hope that one day they will still be able to experience a democratic upheaval in their country.
In the last 5 days alone 12k people were shot by the iranian regime.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/121279-000-A/iran-wut-aufs-regime/