Lessons from the women of Iran's 1979 'stolen' revolution
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Lessons from the women of Iran’s 1979 ’stolen’ revolution

2026-03-05

In 1979 mere weeks after Ayatollah Khomeini took power, Iranian women marched in the streets of Tehran to show their fury at the revolution. Forty years after their protest, contributor Donya Ziaee spoke to three Iranian women who were there, fighting to turn the tide of history. Now as Iran's future remains uncertain, lessons from their experience have resonance today. *This episode originally aired on March 8, 2019.

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