Many Iranian women demand political change amid decades-long grievances
12.10 2022:
Like millions of other Iranian women, retired teacher Somayyeh has been repressed by the country's hardline Islamic laws for decades but was too frightened to stand up to ruling clerics - until Mahsa…
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