“Let’s not be afraid! Let’s not be afraid! We are all together! » A bare-headed Iranian woman marches with her fist raised in the heart of a bazaar in Tehran, followed by a procession of demonstrators. The day before, it was another woman, sitting cross-legged in an avenue in the center of the capital, who faced a row of police officers on motorcycles, dressed all in black.
Immobile, her head covered by her coat, she seems to silently challenge them to a duel, while behind her, the crowd runs away behind clouds of tear gas. And delivers the same message, which this time uses no words: “Let us not be afraid. »