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Shirin Ebadi Speaks

By | 06.18.09 | 5:59 pm

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

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Shirin Ebadi Backs Obama

By | 06.18.09 | 8:54 am

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

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