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amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the fre ....
Subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom to just express and to be, imagine how much great they are country could be. for me, i see this as, you know, really a protest, it s the islamic republic versus the citizens of iran. and i think the more we can lift up what they re doing, i think the more violence and the protests we see in the streets, the more we need to shine light on this issue. huma abedin, author of both/and, an amazing book, now part of the msnbc family. huma is also now vase chair of the 2023 30/50 summit in abu dhabi. mike barnicle and jonathan lemire are with us. just ahead, we ll bring in cnbc s andrew ross sorkin on the new jobs report that was released just moments ago. what it means for the economy. ....