It’s been quiet around Iran for many weeks now. When the young Mahsa Amin died at the hands of the country’s moral police, the support in the West for the protesters was huge. Our media praised the women who defied the regime by taking off (and even burning) their headscarves, by dancing in the streets, by protesting for their freedom. There was this “told you so” moment. Western societies suddenly found themselves to be in the right about their political manoeuvres to ban the headscarf. Until they realised that this was not what the young . . .
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