Admiration. That is the only way we can look at the 'headscarf revolution' in Iran.
Women are taking to the streets en masse in 30 of Iran's 31 provinces. They are taking off their regime-mandated headscarves, waving them publicly or even burning them. The scale and intensity of the protests are unprecedented, surpassing the revolts of 2009, 2017 and 2019.
The inevitable question, then, is whether or not the Iranian regime is faltering? But also, is there anything the EU should ...
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Koert Debeuf is Middle East research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and president of the board of EUobserver. This piece was adapted from a piece in De Standaard.