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December 11, 2023

Children of Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Accept Nobel Peace Prize for Their Mother
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The children of jailed Iranian human rights leader Narges Mohammadi
accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of their mother at a ceremony
in Oslo, Norway, Sunday. Seventeen-year-old twins Kiana and Ali Rahmani,
who live in France, read their mother's speech, which was smuggled out
of Tehran's Evin Prison. This is Ali.

Ali Rahmani: "The reality is that the regime of the Islamic Republic is
at its lowest level of legitimacy and popular support, situated in a
position of unstable equlibrium, and the emergence of any element as a
catalyst for change will mark the final form of opposition policies and
the transition from religious tyranny."

Narges Mohammadi started a new hunger strike the day of the Nobel
ceremony in solidarity with the persecuted Baha'i religious minority in
Iran.


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