Opinion: What happens when a dictator’s ‘red line’ meets the people’s ‘red line’ | Peter Hartcher
. Many women in Iran are walking the streets of major cities uncovered and unimpeded. Even reportedly going unharassed through passport control.
Incensed at the regime’s brutality, fed up with harassment by the hated morality police, suffering hardship resulting from years of Western sanctions, hundreds of thousands of brave Iranians took to the streets. They demanded an end to the hijab law, to the morality police, to the very regime itself. “Women, life, freedom,” they chanted. Groups of women burned their hijabs in angry public displays. Some cut their hair off altogether.
Protesters set fire to the old family home of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and longtime supreme leader, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Demonstrators demanded the downfall of the current supreme leader, chanting: “Death to Khamenei!”There are rumours in Tehran, denied by the authorities, that death already is stalking the supreme leader, 83, who is said to be gravely ill and was last seen in public in a state-owned TV broadcast on November 24.
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