Iran: The protests, Islam and women

Iranian academic Dr Farhang Jahanpour analyses the extraordinary protests that have been sweeping Iran for the past month. 

Since the protests were triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died while in the custody of the morality police for being “inappropriately” dressed – an incident that highlighted the status of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran – Dr Jahanpour talks about what Islam actually says about women and the hijab, and how this compares with the status of women in other religions and cultures.