Countdown to the Midterms:Protests in Iran
Iranian American scholar, Pardis Mahdavi, says the current protests and latest uprisings in Iran are built on the resistance of the previous generations. Mahdavi's recent book, Passionate Uprisings, chronicles a recent sexual revolution among Iranian youth in defiance of the country's conservative regime. Fifteen years ago, the morality police - a branch of the Islamic regime's police charged with upholding conservative dress code and behavioral norms - barged in while she was giving a lecture in Tehran.