Soha Mortezaei is a student activist who has long protested not only against the Islamic Republic, from the Green Movement to the 2019 Protests to the current Women, Life, Freedom Movement, but who has also protested against the personal ban on her education. This is her story.
Today, as we approach the end of Rouhani’s government, how should historians and scholars evaluate the economic, political, and social situation over the last eight years? The issues of women’s political participation and social freedom, which were promised by Rouhani, especially during his first campaign, are of particular importance in this regard.