Abbas Amanat

The protests are now in their sixth week.

the death of that young woman occurred, who was visiting Tehran as a tourist, sparked

something very deep that's particularly concerned the younger generations.

That is what you would call the equivalent of the Z generation in this country.

They call themselves Dahey Hashdadi in Persian because Iran follows the solar calendar of its own.

It's an ancient solar calendar.

And the time that they were born, they were in the

1380s, that's what they call themselves, hashtag D.

80s, hashtag for the 80s.

And well, the circumstances that surrounds the unfortunate death of this young, beautiful Kurdish woman is really tragic.

She was arrested by what is referred to as the Morality Police, Morality Patrol, called the , Guidance Police, that is.

Presumably there were two women fully clad that is officers serving on that force and two men.

And nobody exactly knows what had happened.

She had been beaten up and apparently there was no sign of any wrongdoing on her side.

She was fully covered.

it seems that there was some altercation in the process.

And the outcome was that she was unconscious, not necessarily when she was arrested, but in the course of the detention, when they take them to a center, presumably to re-educate them.

And...

She apparently collapsed.

And maybe my sense is that she must have had some kind of a problem because of the skull being broken or something had happened.