I hope my Iranian sisters go down in history igniting a revolution – but condemning the atrocities is not enough | Tina Hosseini

There is much Australia, along with the rest of the world, can do

Born in Australia, some of my earliest childhood memories comprise of attending rallies that my parents - who fled Iran as political refugees in 1985 - organised, where we'd shout down with the dictator". Fast forward to 2022, the same chants continue, albeit on the dangerous streets of Iran.

What started as a mass uprising condemning the killing under police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini for a dress code violation has now amalgamated into widespread calls for a complete regime change in Tehran. With 60% of Iran's population aged below 30, the current uprisings demonstrates the significance of Iran's generation Z, defying all rules and restrictions under an oppressive regime. They can no longer be suppressed by religious clerics and are bravely rebelling against the regime.