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Source: https://jcpa.org/irans-revolutionary-guard-prepares-for-new-protests-as-the-anniversary-of-mahsa-aminis-murder-approaches/

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Prepares for New Protests as the Anniversary of Mahsa Amini's Murder Approaches

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Suzan Quitaz - Beginning on September 16, 2022, nationwide protests rocked the Islamic Republic of Iran after the killing of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who was visiting Tehran when the morality police detained her for breaching the country's mandatory headscarf law. The regime's brutality and terror have crushed the Amini protest movement, but there are still pockets of resistance in some Persian cities. Yet the Amini uprising has left a profound legacy of bravery the world has not seen in modern times. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed protesters, men and women, poured into the streets. Brutal security forces killed hundreds. According to the Javan Daily, affiliated with the IRGC, "93% of the protesters are no older than 25." Although the Amini uprising failed to topple the regime, this was not the end.

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