My Nobel sister Shirin Ebadi is one of the most steadfast, determined women I know. She served as a presiding judge—the first woman in Iran to do so—until the 1979 Islamic revolution when she was ...
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi was facing a fierce backlash Saturday from some Iranians for joining a transitional body the son of Iran's ousted shah hopes will smooth his path to ...
MSN: Iran Nobel winner Ebadi faces backlash over support for son of ousted Shah
Iran Nobel winner Ebadi faces backlash over support for son of ousted Shah
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Iran, [c] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, [d] and also known as Persia, [e] is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a population of over 92 million ...
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Iran is a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia. The heart of the Persian empire of antiquity, Iran has long played an important role in the region as an imperial power and as a factor in superpower rivalries. Modern Iranian culture owes itself in part to a renaissance in the 8th century.