2 Kansas City women are risking everything to spread messages of liberation among protesters in...

As protests in Iran move into their fourth month, these Iranian American women aren’t giving up. With every social media post, text, or Whatsapp call, they want to bring hope and liberation to Iranians back home and living abroad.
Watching nationwide protests erupt in Iran from a cushy couch in America’s suburbs, Mercedeh Tavacoli and Azzie Amani have felt plenty of anxiety about how they can help the women in their home country.

“You really feel helpless here,” said Amani, whose family left Iran when she was in middle school.

That’s why, for the last 17 weeks, the two women have been telling whoever will listen about the importance of what’s going on in the Islamic republic.