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54321lkjhg121 karma

Yes, the hashtag is just her name written in Farsi. But the one written in Farsi is much more widespread.

54321lkjhg59 karma

Technically the Persian script which is derived from the Arabic script. There are differences.

It’s like saying you can read and understand Danish Turkish just because you know English.

54321lkjhg54 karma

Obviously I don’t want to be defeatist here, everyone is incredibly brave and nothing takes away from that.

But how do you go about having a democratic government without any centralised opposition leadership?

54321lkjhg41 karma

There are a lot of different ethnicities in Iran. Some of which want autonomous regions. Kurdish people have been campaigning for a while for an independent Kurdistan. However, clearly this has gone past being a Kurdish issue and has spread across Iran, and has united different ethnicities for a common cause.

Edit: just to add I don’t know how prevalent it is amongst Iranian Kurds to want an independent Kurdistan.

54321lkjhg20 karma

Why would they not use their language for their own protest? Not everyone speaks English.

The hashtag that’s being spread that she wrote above just says Mahsa Amini.