Iranian Protests 2025. In december 2023, amnesty international detailed the harrowing use of rape, including gang rape, and other forms of sexual violence by iranian authorities as they sought. Abbas milani, founding director of stanford’s iranian studies program, discusses how the most recent protests sweeping cities and villages across iran are part of an enduring.
People have been protesting across iran for the past year, defying a deadly crackdown by security forces. Today, iranian women are not only at the forefront of the ongoing protests, but they are also behind its central demands—namely, the downfall of the regime.
