Opinion: The mullahs are afraid of women

They have been demonstrating for days, all across the country. Determined, angry and, above all, courageous. Women in Iran are at the forefront of the current protests.

This is not new. Women have played a key role in all the protest movements of the past 40 years, including the Green Movement of 2009 and the last major nationwide protests in November 2019, which went on for several weeks before being brutally suppressed.

Immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women were…