from a pro-democracy protest

During the widespread 2022 protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, protesters would gather bricks from construction sites, scattering them on the streets to obstruct government forces or using them as projectiles against armed forces. A humble brick—the backbone of Persian cities and shrines for millennia—became, in that moment, a vital instrument of resistance and freedom. The 2022 protests fueled an ongoing movement called Women, Life, Freedom.

Amirhossen Kardouni in Tehran