IRAN'S REVOLVING REVOLUTION

BACK STORY With DANA LEWIS

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On this Back Story is a new revolution in the making in Iran?
It's just over 40 years since the Shah of Iran was over thrown, and it became an Islamic republic, but now people are back in the streets calling for the end of the religious regime.
Violent demonstrations were sparked by the murder of a 22yr old woman arrested and beaten to death by the so-called 'morality police'.
We talk to Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman of the Iranian resistant movement in Europe, and Dowlat Norouzi, from the National Council of resistance of Iran on why women are leading the charge for change.

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