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The courage of young Iranian women is utterly inspiring. They have been tearing off their head scarves and burning them in public, in protest at the killing in police custody of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by "morality police" for supposedly improper hijab.

Young Iranians are just sick of the repression and hypocrisy of the Iranian regime. In my visits to the country, I'm struck that young Iranians are more likely in private to drink alcohol and ignore Ramadan fasting rules than in most other Muslim countries. The brutality and corruption of Iranian leaders has just discredited the regime.

It's striking that these protests aren't just in middle class areas of Tehran, but also in the religious city of Qom and the very traditional city of Mashhad. The whole country is fed up.

The Iranian government is willing to shoot and kill, and it has managed to suppress previous protest movements. Maybe it will again. But the one thing that is utterly clear is that these young Iranians fighting for freedom are on the right side of history.

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