a short while ago i spoke to iranian —american author and women�*s rights campaigner, masih alinejad,n and around the world. masih alinejad, thank you so much forjoining us here on bbc news. 0n the anniversary of the death of mahsa amini, how would you assess the impact of the protests that we have seen in iran over the past year? has anything changed forwomen in iran? i have to say that the flame of the revolution is still burning in iran. right now that i�*m talking to you, people, especially the youth, took back to the street because they believe that more than 700 people got killed, 20,000 of them got arrested and many of them got executed, so there is nothing to lose for the young generation in iran, especially women saying that the revolution itself happened inside our heart and we�*re not going to take a step back, we will end this regime. they want to have a normal life, they want to have dignity, they want to have freedom and the islamic republic actually cracked down on the protesters right now in the streets. talk to me about that mood among those young protesters who are c

users are protesting with this hashtag that masih alinejad is an anti-revolutionary figure who livesn america with slogans of human rights and anti -iranian actions for personal interests. this hashtag has been repeated about 40,000 times and often in anti-revolutionary user accounts in social networks . yesterday news about the release of one of the products iran khodro has been published outside the integrated system since the 3rd of mehr, which is not true. according to iran khodro's public relations announcement, the current priority is to fulfill the obligations created for this car manufacturer, and there is no sales plan for passenger cars and economic bestsellers outside the integrated system. it is not on the agenda, with the implementation of the law on facilitating the issuance of business licenses, more than 4,500 licenses for guest houses have been issued since january of last year , and the law on electronic guest house licenses will be issued, and all departments of the ministry of cultural heritage and tourism must comply with the law on facilitating the issuance of l

here's iranian—american author and women's rights campaigner masih alinejad talking about the demonstrations burning in iran. right now that i'm talking to you, people, especially the youth, took back to the street because they believe that more than 700 people got killed, 20,000 of them got arrested and many of them got executed, so there is nothing to lose for the young generation in iran, especially women saying that the revolution itself happened inside our heart and we're not going to take a step back, we will end this regime. they want to have a normal life, they want to have dignity, they want to have freedom and the islamic republic actually cracked down on the protesters right now in the streets. over 500 protesters lost their lives during the mass protests in iran last year. incidents were captured on camera showing both police and militias loyal to the supreme leader firing at the demonstrators. omid moradi, a former officer in the iranian special police forces, has defected and sought refuge in germany. in an interview with bbc�*s jiyar gol, moradi sheds light on the pervasive cu

masih alinejad has not taken up that advice and she does not plan to.in the break, i had two minds. i'm happy they're trying to protect you. and two, have they met you? >> to be honest, when i read the e-mail i was excited that wow, this is, you know, my adopted country, they're trying to protect me because they said that high-level protection. i was like wow. and then in a conversation on the phone i found out this is witness protection. it means for those of you if you don't have any idea what prints protection means, that i have to change my name, my identity, my maybe appearance and go in hiding, into hiding, like just get disappeared. this is not in my dna. i want to be loud. i want to give voice to voiceless people. >> and i think i understand the why. we've talked about how difficult it is for us to cover what's happening in iran and you are their voice. even if you wouldn't do it for yourself, i feel like you wouldn't do it for them. >> not at all. look, right now that i'm talking to you, everyone in the media, they're talking about five america