Abbas Amanat

And she died in the hospital the next day.

And that, through the social media, was widely spread throughout Iran.

And almost the next day, surprisingly, you could see this outburst of

of sympathy for her.

People are in the streets weeping because she was seen as such an innocent young woman, 22 years old.

And the family, the mother and the father, also mourning for her.

And being a Kurd visiting Tehran, this all added up to really turn her into some kind of a martyr of this cause.

And that's what it is.

And her picture, graphics that were artistically produced based on her portrait has now dominates basically as the symbol of this protest movement.

And the protest movement goes on.

Everybody was thinking, or at least the authorities were thinking, that it's going to die out in a matter of a few days.

but it became more intense, first in the streets of Tehran by young women, mostly probably between, I would say, 17, 18 teenagers to 22, 23, or thereabouts, and then to university campuses all around the country, and then even to high schools.

And that also made it a very remarkable protest movement because, first of all, it involves the youth,

and not necessarily the older generations.

You see them around, but not as many.

Also, you see men and women together, young, girls and boys.

And...

They are adamant, they are desperate in the sense of the tone of their protest, and they are extremely courageous because they stand against the security forces that were immediately

were sent off to the streets.

So, and in full gear, that is.