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Shirin Ebadi Speaks

I noticed her quote in The Washington Post this morning, but now the Nobel laureate and human rights activist has her own op-ed up at The Huffington Post. Her prescriptions for ending the crisis:
1. The unconditional release of every individual arrested and imprisoned for having objected to the results of the elections.
2. Ordering the cessation [...]


Shirin Ebadi Backs Obama

At the bottom of Glenn Kessler’s piece in The Washington Post on President Obama’s Iran strategy is this telling quote:
Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, said she has no complaints about Obama’s rhetoric. “What happens in Iran regards the people themselves, and it is up to [...]