In The News
- Neda Agha Soltan, Shot during the 2009 Iranian election protests, her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition
- Zahra Bani Ameri, physician
- Behnaz Mozakka, died in 2005 London bombing
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, 2003 Miss World 1st runner up, Miss Canada 2003, Human Rights Activist, Singer and Songwriter
- Ramona Amiri, Miss World Canada 2005.
- Rudi Bakhtiar, TV news anchor
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani, conjoined twins
- Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
- Haleh Esfandiari, scholar, detainee
- Nazanin Fatehi, controversially sentenced to death for murder.
- Nasrin Sotoudeh
- Zeynab Jalaliyan, Kurdish prisoner
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“The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)