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Iran vs The Islamic Republic: Fighting Iran’s Gender Apartheid Regime | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Thought Leader: Ian Bremmer
December 12, 2022
Source: GZERO Media

How did Iranian women get here? Ian Bremmer asks Iranian journalist & activist Masih Alinejad. Woman, life, freedom. Those three words have filled the streets of Iran since the ongoing women-led protests against the regime, the biggest since 2009, began last September. How did Iranian women get here? How has the theocracy responded so far? And what might come next?

On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer speaks to Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad, a sworn enemy of the Supreme Leader; it’s widely believed that Iranian spies have tried to kidnap and assassinate her here in New York. From Alinejad’s perspective, the regime is afraid like never before because the protests have achieved unity among Iranians for the first time. And many even cheered the national soccer team’s elimination at the World Cup because some players were seen as puppets of the regime. Her message to the West: I

f you want to help, don’t go back to the 2015 nuclear deal and let Iranians bring about regime change on their own.

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