Erzsebét Rózsa: CIVIL REBELLION IN IRAN

The death of a detained young woman in Teheran who had been
arrested  for ‚bad hijab‘ has provoked demonstrations which
started in Kurdistan –  Mahsa Amini was Kurdish and Sunni –
but evolved into nationwide  protests of the Iranian civil
society against the enforced rules by the  Islamic
Republic’s regime and against the system in general. It is a
 particularly sensitive time for Iran because the end of Ali
Khamenei’s  leadership era is foreseeable. A normalisation
of relations with ‚the  West‘ through a reactivation of the
nuclear deal (JCPOA) has failed so  far. Tensions are
intensifying because of Iran’s ‚alliance‘ with Russia.


Erzsébet Rózsa is a Professor at the National
 University of Public Service, Budapest and a Senior
Research Fellow at  the Institute for World Economics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.  She is also an External
Fellow at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and  Trade,
Budapest. Her fields of research include the political, security
 and social processes of the Middle East, Egypt, Iran, the
Iranian  nuclear debate, nuclear non-proliferation, as well
as the  Euro-Mediterranean cooperation institutions.
Erzsébet N. Rózsa holds an  MA in Arabic Studies, Iranian
Studies and English Studies, and a PhD in  International
Relations.


Gudrun Harrer, Senior Editor at Der Standard,
Lecturer on Modern History and Politics of the Middle East,
University of Vienna and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna