Rafsanjani's daughter is detained by Iran.

According to the Tasnim news agency, Iran detained the ex-daughter president's on Tuesday for inciting unrest in the midst of a wave of unrest following the murder of a young woman.

Without going into any detail, Tasnim stated that "a security agency has arrested Faezeh Hashemi in the east of Tehran for encouraging rioters to street rallies."

On Tuesday, Iranians demonstrated over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for the twelfth consecutive night.

After being detained by Iran's famed morality police for allegedly breaking the nation's tight laws regarding hijab headscarves and modest attire, the Kurdish woman passed away while in their care. Hashemi, a former lawmaker and advocate for women's rights, has already had legal issues in the Islamic republic.

She was accused of spreading propaganda against the nation and blasphemy on social media, according to the judiciary, in July. Hashemi reportedly said that Iran's request that the Revolutionary Guards be taken off a US terror list was "damaging" to the nation's "national interests" at the time, according to media sources.

Separate comments about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed, Khadija, were also made by Hashemi. She allegedly referred to Khadija as a "businesswoman," proving that women are capable of working in the financial sector and whose money the prophet spent.

According to state news agency IRNA, she later claimed that her comments were a "joke... with no intention of inflicting insult." The late Hashemi's father was a centrist who pushed for improved ties with the West and the US.

2012 saw her receiving a six-month prison term for "propaganda against the Islamic republic."

Iran's "revolution for and by women" has received plaudits from the late Shah's son. The late Shah's son praised Iran's widespread demonstrations as a historic women's revolution and pleaded with the outside world to exert more pressure on the country's clerical authorities.

Reza Pahlavi, whose father was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, has urged more action to be taken in order to get Iran ready for a secular and democratic future. According to Pahlavi, who now lives in exile in the Washington, D.C., region, "It is actually, in my opinion, the first revolution for women, by women - with the support of Iranian men, sons, brothers, and dads."

It has reached the point where we have had enough, or basta as the Spaniards would say.

Mahsa Amini, 22, died on September 16 while being held by Iran's notorious morality police, purportedly for disobeying the severe rule requiring women to wear headscarves in public. Since then, protests have swept through major cities, leaving scores dead.

Pahlavi said, "Women are the symbols of today's persecution," while denouncing prejudice towards minorities and the LGBTQ community.

He asserted that most Iranian women "ask for the same rights for themselves when they look at the freedoms that women in the free world have and exercise."

Reza Shah, his grandfather, outlawed all Islamic veils in 1936 as part of a Westernization effort motivated by the neighboring Turkish Republic.

Under the previous shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the veil was optional; however, this changed when the Islamic republic established rules for women's "modesty" in public. Pahlavi, the father of three daughters, thinks that women's rights should be respected and that Iranian culture has advanced well beyond the time of "male chauvinism."

Women are free to decide whether or not to cover their faces. But it ought to be a free option, not one that's forced on you for ideological or religious reasons," he said.

- Distinction between the state and church

Although Pahlavi is well-liked in the majority of the exile population, he has said that he is not attempting to reinstate the monarchy, a position that is not widely supported in Iran.

Pahlavi is in favor of a constituent assembly that works with the global opposition to draft a new constitution.

Without a clear definition and separation of church and state, Pahlavi asserted, "there cannot be a truly democratic order."

The Islamic republic has endured for more than four decades despite antagonism and rejection from the West, particularly the United States. Pahlavi insisted that the world needs to be ready since the system could collapse at any time.

He remarked, "We must take into account the very real chance that this rule may not endure long. I've been saying for a long that we should prepare for the worst-case situation since it might occur in the next few weeks or months.

Pahlavi believed that there should be a "managed implosion" and then a smooth transition. Many of the forceful international responses to the protests, such as those from Germany and Canada, were praised by him.

However, he did want additional measures, such as the freezing of assets and the deportation of diplomats. "It is essential for reasons other than merely moral support. These are the kinds of actions that make a significant difference, he said.

In the hopes that the widespread protests would result in a general strike, he reaffirmed his call for a strike fund to recompense workers. Pahlavi indicated support for diplomacy but expressed skepticism about the US rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement, which would permit Iran to openly sell oil on international markets.

According to Pahlavi, Western leaders frequently think they can "provide an incentive for the dictatorship to change its behavior so that we can drag them back to be good guys and behave." He asserts that the Islamic republic was established through the exportation of ideologies.