In addition to women’s rights protests in 2022, experts believe that the protests currently happening in Iran represent the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its founding in 1979. While some Iranians are putting their hope in the son of the Shah who once ruled the country, the opposition in Iran remains fractured, which is playing into the uncertainty about what will happen next. Story by Monte Francis and Ludovic de Foucaud.
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