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Scores of women in Iran have been undeterred

in the face of confining rules

for how they should live and behave.

In her 2023 talk from the Ted Immigrant diaspora Iranian event,

Creative producer Golries Lucina offers lessons from the poet and mystic Tahire for

us to stand up against injustice, even if justice doesn't come

until long after work on, after a sponsor message.

It is not an unusual sight in Iran. A large conference attended only by men.

After all, women are to be hidden from public view,

kept uneducated, silent, powerless.

It is within these strict confines that a young woman, eyes bright with possibility for a more

just and equitable world, bravely steps into this gathering of men with her veil removed.

Her face is uncovered, an act considered blasphemous.

Just the presence of this woman alone sends shock waves through the crowd.

She declares that the time has come to break away from antiquated traditions

and step into a new era of human consciousness

in which every person is free to choose their own path.

Soon after, she is imprisoned, charged with spreading corruption on earth and sentenced to death.

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