Iran has experienced repeated eruptions since 1979, some driven by economic collapse, others—such as the recent Woman, Life, Freedom movement—by demands for basic civil rights. Taken together, these protests point in the direction of freedom: democratic freedom, freedom of thought, freedom of dignity, and inevitably, freedom of markets.
The most recent protests were triggered by unimaginable inflation and the collapse of Iran’s currency. But the world aligns more closely with the focus of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, not as an economic program but as a cohesive moral claim.