Why the Murder of Mahsa Amini Could Lead to Revolution

Why the Murder of Mahsa Amini Could Lead to Revolution

An unveiled woman stands with thousands of protesters headed toward Aichi cemetery in Mahsa Amini’s hometown of Saqqez to mark 40 days since her death. (Photo via UGC/AFP/Getty Images)Last year, Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the town of Saqqez in northwestern Iran, came to visit family in Tehran—a stranger in a strange land. On September 13, she was exiting a subway station with her brother when she was stopped by the morality polic…