Iranian state media reported on Monday that President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner who was considered a potential successor to the country's aging supreme leader, died in a helicopter crash.
In July, following a directive from the Taliban administration in Afghanistan, which stated that all women's beauty salons must shut down within a month, videos surfaced on social media depicting women's protests both in the streets of Kabul and within their homes. These demonstrations, often accompanied by signs proclaiming "Bread, justice, work," were responses to the Taliban's actions since their takeover of Kabul on August 15, 2021.