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Objective Summary: Women’s rights are universal equity that the female species deserve regardless of the circumstance. But when their rights are being threatened and there’s resistance against their freedom to live as they want, many women will not stand aside and let the equality they fought for be restricted against them once again. The death of Masa Amini sparked a recent rebellion within the Iranian community, where thousands of women are doing just that-fighting for their liberty in a country that aims to restrain them. Masa Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman that was detained by the Iran morality police “...for violating Iran’s hijab law, which mandates veiling for women and modest Islamic dress.” (Kelly J. Shannon). While in police custody, she was reported to have passed away due to a heart attack, but many Iranian citizens believe that the police were responsible for brutally attacking her to death. Upon hearing the news about Masa Amini’s death, many Iranian women were devastated and heartbroken, but are not standing for the treatment used against the woman they believe was rightfully innocent. Despite new supporters and advocates joining the outstretching movement for women’s rights in Iran, the rising wrath of the women in Iran was not just recently invoked. In her article, Kelly J. Shannon discloses that the current uprising “...is about the Islamic Republic’s four decades of patriarchal oppression and violence against women, as well as the determined resistance of Iranian women to that oppression”, explaining the years-long worth of growing anger these women endured until another breaking point was reached on September 14, 2022 (during Masa Amini’s detaining and later death). The Islamic Republic was not always repressive against its female citizens, however, as during the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (from 1941 to 1979), many women achieved new access to rights in college and education, careers, marriage, and the right to vote and hold government positions through the enactment of the Family Protection Law in 1967. But in 1979, “...controlling and subordinating women was at the top of the new Islamic Republic’s agenda.” (Shannon). Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the leader of a revolution that did not view women’s equality to be compatible with the Islamic society and religious views. Once he was admitted to power in 1980, Khomeini began taking away the rights and positions that the Islamic women have fought for, revoked the Family Protection Law, and laid even stricter prohibitions that Iranian women could not fight off with protests. Times in the 1980s were even harsher, as “The government forced women out of certain jobs, segregated universities by sex and banned female students from majoring in certain subjects…lowered the minimum age of marriage for girls…and encouraged polygamy.” (Shannon). Those who resisted the rules were arrested by the morality police for improper attire or conspiracy of waging war against God and were put in jail where they were physically and sexually abused by prison guards. The abusive treatment eventually led to the rise of the “pink revolution” where the Iranian women “...collectively began pushing the boundaries of the hijab law by wearing makeup, colorful headscarves and long coats instead of chadors, and intentionally allowing their hair to peek out from under their scarves.” (Shannon) Due to a large number of participants in the movement, the mortality police could not detain any women, which led to even more protests and the establishing of the One Million Signatures for the Repeal of Discriminatory Laws campaign (or Change for Equality) in 2006, reaching international news. Ultimately, the movement ended due to the shooting and killing of Neda Agha Soltan, but the organized resistance did not aim to cease. Young women filmed or photographed themselves removing their headscarves in public…posted videos online of women being harassed in public by morality police or other citizens for wearing “improper” hijab as a way to shame the harassers…used social media to decry compulsory veiling and created the civil disobedience campaign My Stealthy Freedom, where women posted photos of themselves bareheaded on social media.” (Shannon), in which the Iranian government replied with more arrests and newly developed facial recognition that identifies the women in anti-hijab videos that they capture and punish. With such laws occurring for the following years in Iran, the death of Masa Amini caused an outcry from countless Iranian women who’ve had enough of their country’s constraints and aim to put an end to this drawn-out war, fighting for their universal freedom.