On November 4, 2022, the Iran 1400 Project spoke with Dr. Shirin Saeidi about her book “Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State”. Dr. Saeidi discussed how non-elite Iranian women conditioned the state formation process in post-1979, shedding light on how one can contemplate Iranian women’s role in transforming the postrevolutionary Iranian state. During the lively Q&A discussion, she reflected on a variety of questions, from the role of expatriates in the current protests to what role the irregular nature of citizenship in Iran played in sparking the protests.