Euroviews. Does Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian remember Mahsa Amini's death?

Monday marks the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, the young woman who died after arrest by Iran's morality police, an event that ignited widespread unrest across the country for weeks and months on end.

Protests began simultaneously with her funeral in her hometown of Saqqez, located in Iran's Kurdish region, and quickly spread to other cities.

This time, it wasn’t only Tehran and the larger cities that saw unrest. Smaller towns, typically more conservative and closed-off, also erupted.

Day by day, the number of demonstrators — mainly from Generation Z — grew. The pace of events was so rapid that few could have anticipated it. Some even went so far as to predict the imminent fall of the regime. Opposition groups, led by prominent political figures and celebrities, formed a coalition and united to conceive a plan for governing Iran's future.

Solidarity marches and street protests in support of Iranian women and girls gained momentum, compelling the government to retreat, at least temporarily, from enforcing certain regulations. Meanwhile, young people's demands grew more serious and focused.

However, after several months, the movement — lacking real unity among opposition forces and substantial field support from foreign powers, particularly the US — waned. The regime gradually regained control, launching waves of arbitrary arrests, politically motivated expulsion and show trials.

Despite international pressure and human rights condemnations, the Iranian regime executed dozens of protesters and handed down heavy sentences to many others.

Months later, Iran's ultra-conservative parliament, in line with Ebrahim Raisi's government, voted in favour of the "Hijab and chastity bill," which faced significant