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Jemima Shelley

Jemima Shelley is a researcher in the Extremism Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute.

<p>There has been recent talk of an oppressive and draconian law, introducing harsher punishments for women who expose their hair, forearms or lower legs – even executions</p>

Iran’s brutal oppression of women has entered a dark new phase

<p>”The failure of Afghanistan” is a cliché regurgitated by many in the West</p>

The West is still clinging to three damaging myths about the Taliban