Iran’s rebellion spreads, despite lethal repression

world, the past ten days have played out in snippets of video posted on social media. Women defiantly doff their hijabs or cut off their hair in public. Crowds chant “death to the dictator” and chase off policemen. Families weep over the coffins of relatives killed at protests—and then urge their fellow mourners to keep at it.Inside Iran, events since September 16th have been an earthquake. They began after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old student, detained earlier this month by in Tehran, Iran’s capital, for her supposedly incorrect hijab. Her death—photos and witnesses indicate she was badly beaten—tapped a deep well of grievances. Iranians are furious about a disastrous economy and a slate of religious rules imposed by a coterie of grey-haired clerics. Ms Amini’s death became a focal point for that anger.