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When Does an Uprising Become a Revolution? Reza Aslan and Assal Rad on the Protests in Iran
Iran is in upheaval. The death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran’s “morality police” has sparked an uprising throughout the country. Protesters have turned the current regime’s revolutionary iconography against…