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Marty Baron is a career journalist and former editor of The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. His newsrooms have garnered 18 Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Boston Globe’s coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church — the subject of 2015 Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight.”
Last year, the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement’s rejection of the hijab presented an ideological quandary: Is the hijab feminist or a tool of oppression? In the case of Iran, it’s not that simple.
In its continuing crackdown, the Islamic Republic is playing with fire, and its ideological foundation can hardly stand up to the force of the new generation.