They hold hands and kiss in the middle of traffic, in public. For Iran this photo is revolutionary and for this reason it is making the rounds of social networks. They called it the kiss of Shiraz. The boy and girl immortalized in this shot are among the many who took to the streets to protest after the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old of Kurdish origin arrested because she did not wear the veil correctly.
Under Iranian law this kiss it is prohibited, because in public and because the woman does not have her head covered by a veil. The kiss is against morality, the one invoked even in the case of the dead girl, the morality desired by the theocratic government of the Ayatollahs against which thousands of people have been taking to the streets for months now.
The photo of the kiss circulating on social media would have been detached on the day when a Shiraz activists recalled the anniversary of Bloody November 2019 when 1,500 people died in street protests.
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Among the thousands of comments on the photo taken by a stranger and with two strangers as protagonists there are many who define it as the true meaning of the revolution. It is no coincidence that the photo was taken in Shiraz, a liberal city, very active in protests and the country’s cradle of poetry.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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