one year after the death of Mahsa Amini, what remains of the protest?

A year after the immense wave of protest triggered by the suspicious death of a student, Mahsa Amini, arrested for a poorly worn veil, there are no more demonstrations in the streets of major cities. It is now rather a movement of civil disobedience, made up of individual gestures of hostility to the regime. Young women film themselves without the veil in the street and post their videos on social networks, young people tear off the mullahs’ turbans as a sign of rejection of religious power.

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The regime still maintains pressure on protesters, making arrests regularly. Protesters and activists have had to go into exile to escape the police. In fact, the regime gradually stifled the movement thanks to a sprawling security apparatus that was extremely sophisticated in its repression, which does not mean that everything is over because the causes of the anger have not been resolved.

The priority is to survive

The results of the repression are frightening, with terrible figures. There were nearly 600 deaths, according to Amnesty International, seven protesters were executed, there were tens of thousands of arbitrary arrests, widespread torture in prisons and interrogation centers, rapes of detainees. The families of demonstrators and activists are still harassed and regularly threatened by the security services. Journalists, lawyers, artists and even athletes have been particularly targeted by the repression.

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Today, the regime is weakened but remains standing and inflexible. Many Iranians are disillusioned, they no longer believe in the regime’s ideological slogans. The priority for them is to survive on a daily basis in an impoverished country where inflation officially exceeds 50%.