Iran's statements 'for int'l consumption' distract from 'atrocities against women, public at large'

A female student who stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university does not represent a security issue but is a “troubled individual” who is receiving treatment, a government spokesperson said. All the while, Amnesty International is calling for her immediate release on X (formerly Twitter), saying she was “violently arrested on 2 Nov after she removed her clothes in protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by security officials at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University. FRANCE 24’s is joined by Azadeh Pourzand, Author, PhD candidate at SOAS University of London’s Global Media and Communications Department, Spokesperson and Community Director Spokesperson and Community Director Impact Iran and Senior Fellow and Co-Head of the State-Society Research Unit Senior Fellow and Co-Head of the State-Society Research Unit Center for Middle East & Global Order (CMEG).