Why protesters are taking to the streets in Iran and Russia

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<p>The <a href="https://apple.news/AHN-TYa_yS66_oZX3zY3CCA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> has on-the ground coverage of demonstrators in Russia who are pushing back against Putin&rsquo;s moves to draft people to fight in Ukraine.</p> <p>Marchers are protesting in cities across Iran against what some see as a return to the hard-line policies of the earliest days of the Islamic Revolution. The <a href="https://apple.news/ApC8dE4raQ1OsDX5ulAJVAQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">New Yorker</a> explains what&rsquo;s going on.</p> <p>Several women who worked at Tesla have filed sexual-harassment lawsuits against the corporation. <a href="https://apple.news/Awbk_FjfPT_6ld0Ym3uTJEA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Rolling Stone</a> is telling their stories.</p> <p>Many American cities have tried gun buybacks as a solution to violence. <a href="https://apple.news/As6tDVCnLSVOSG8RJq7170g?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Fast Company</a> lays out research that shows they don&rsquo;t seem to work.</p> <p>NASA is about to deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. <a href="https://apple.news/AVrqvcAZDS7CiFbuCkjSJxQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NBC News</a> explains how it&rsquo;s a test for how to save Earth from a theoretical deadly rock from space.</p>