Dall’ analisi di Kourosh Ziabari, Asia Times. The nationwide uprising that ensued after the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police in September added a new dimension to the global media coverage of Iran and dislodged the exclusive focus previously set on the country’s nuclear program and the stalled negotiations to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Now, the media are spotlighting the heroism of the Iranian women braving an overwhelming crackdown to reclaim their dispossessed rights, as well as the often-untold stories of ordinary citizens who are these days the protagonists of an epoch-making, dramatic struggle for freedom. These stories are being relayed to an international audience mostly courtesy of local reporters as well as citizen journalists who have been lifting the veil on various aspects of the sociopolitical crisis plunging the country deep into turmoil over the past couple of months, the government’s iron-fist policy brutalizing the protesters, and women’s clarion call for equality and the reversal of the unpopular compulsory-hijab laws.
Amid epochal uprising, journalism under attack in Iran – Asia Times
