Presidential election in Iran: What aspirations of the youth?
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Supporters of Ebrahim Raisi, candidate for the Presidency of Iran, in the streets of Tehran on June 14, 2021 ATTA KENARE AFP
By: Charlie Dupiot Follow |
Emmanuelle Bastide
55 mins
This Friday, June 18, 2021, the Iranians go to the polls to choose their new president.
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Already exhausted by US sanctions that have led to inflation, unemployment and poverty, the daily lives of some 83 million Iranians have been further clouded by the covid-19 pandemic.
More than 1.5 million people have indeed lost their jobs because of the health crisis, not to mention the deprivations and restrictions imposed in an attempt to control the epidemic.
In this context, how is Iranian society living?
What to expect from the departure of Hassan Rohani, the current president.
In a country where 40% of the population is under 25 and has never known anything other than the power of the mullahs, what are the hopes of the younger generation?
With:
Mahnaz Shirali
, sociologist, author of
Window on Iran, the cry of a gagged people
(Les Pérégrines)
Thierry Coville
, researcher specializing in Iran at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, IRIS
Bahar Azadi,
doctor of philosophy, researcher at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Author of a thesis on transidentity in Iran.
Golnar's testimony.
This 36-year-old Iranian lives in Tehran and works in advertising.
She tells
Charlie Dupiot her
daily life since the start of the covid-19
pandemic
The testimony of Golnar, a young Iranian woman, collected by Charlie Dupiot
An excerpt from the
Selfiraniennes
Webseries
produced by Charlie Dupiot with Ségolène Davin.
Series in 6 episodes available on youtube,
Selfiraniennes
plunges us into the intimacy of young Iranian women aged 20 to 30 years.
Smartphone glued to the mirror in their bedroom, they confide in selfie mode, often without a veil, just before going out.
Presentation of the Selfiraniennes web series © Charlie Dupiot / France TV
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