Six months ago this week, Mahsa Amini was arrested for allegedly flouting Iran's strict dress code for women. Within days she was dead, sparking the country's biggest protests in years. As Iranians continue anti-government protests during Iran's fire festival, albeit scattered, FRANCE 24 is joined by Farhad Khosrokhavar, Author, Franco-Iranian Sociologist and EHESS Director of Studies & Chair of Sociology of Contemporary Iran. He has noticed a veritable paradigm shift in this entire region that he finds to be 'paradoxical'. He asserts that "in the Middle East and the Muslim world, women have been the avant garde. For the first time in the history of social movements in the region, women have initiated this movement. And then young men joined them. That means that traditional notions of honor, of man's superiority to women, have been put into question. And both have acted against what might be called this 'hyper-oppressive theocratic regime."