LIVE VIDEO – Can the revolt in Iran become a revolution? The Franceinfo Talk debate

Since September 16, 2022, a vast popular protest movement has been sweeping through Iran. The death of Mahsa Amini seems to be at the origin of this wind of protest, but it is also the context of the election of Ebrahim Raïsi, ultraconservative, as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran which animates the anger of the demonstrators.

Chowra Makaremi, anthropologist and author of the book Aziz’s Notebook: At the Edge of the Iranian Revolution published by Gallimard and Farid Vahid, director of the Middle East observatory of the Jean Jaurès foundation are in the Talk to discuss it.

The death of Mahsa Amini is the trigger for these demonstrations. This 22-year-old Iranian girl, arrested on September 13 by the morality police, died in Tehran hospital. If the police say that Mahsa died of a heart problem that occurred during her arrest, this version is called into question by many demonstrators who suspect the police of having raped the young woman.

If in recent years, the Iranian people have risen up against the increase in fuel prices or even electoral fraud, the September 2022 movement seems to put the question of women’s rights in Iran back at the heart of the mobilizations, by taking the assassination of Mahsa Amini as a symbol of the repression of women. So are we witnessing a revolution?

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