Losing their religion, state-imposed religions don't fair very well in the modern secular world, the state churches of Europe led to widespread atheism, but the religious freedom in America led to mass lunacy! Perhaps Iran is undergoing a similar process with its centralized state version of Islam. This sure ain't Russia, large families lead to younger populations and there is a large youth demographic in Iran and I'm not sure how much they control the internet, which has been around 30 years and they probably had it for the last 10 to 20 years. This discontent has been brewing for a while and the killing of a young woman was the spark that lite the fuel.
I think it might be one of those urban rural divides, religion is the cause here, in south and central America it about economic policy and indigenous rural people versus urban more European identifying people. In America the urban rural divide is mostly about made up culture wars and the domestic for-profit domestic disinformation system feeding them spin and pure bullshit.
Iran protests rage on in defiance of crackdown • FRANCE 24 English
11,073 views Nov 1, 2022 Iranians staged new protest actions to denounce the country's theocratic regime in defiance of a crackdown that is now seeing those arrested put on trial and facing the death penalty. Iran has for the past six weeks been rocked by protests of a scale and nature unprecedented since the 1979 Islamic revolution, sparked by the death in September of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested by the Tehran morality police.