One of the most iconic images of this early wave of protests was of youth grabbing bags of rice and tossing the grains in the air after looting a branch of Ofogh Kourosh, a chain supermarket linked to the IRGC. Six women’s organizations from Kurdistan deemed the uprising a continuation of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” revolt a few years earlier, decrying the “massacre and brutal suppression” of protests, urging that “freedom” could only come through the “collective will.” The statement condemned the return to monarchism advocated by Reza Pahlavi. Iran is not the only place that appears to be facing down military occupation and martial law; those words have been used to describe conditions in Minneapolis and other cities where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the National Guard have been deployed by Trump as part of his crackdown on immigrants across the country.
Author: Alex Shams
Published at: 2026-01-15 21:44:42
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