Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Iranian peoples' call for freedom was heard all over the world, but has a bloody crackdown crushed the uprising? Shirin Ebadi was Iran's first female judge, but was demoted following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But she kept advocating for women and human rights, and in 2003, became Iran's first Nobel Peace Prize winner. Shirin Ebadi joins the show from London. Also on today's show: author Theodor Meron; author Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Two weeks that shook Iran, with thousands of protesters killed in a bloody crackdown,
1:06.0	and Trump pulling back his threats for now.
1:09.0	I asked Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi if the regime will survive.
1:14.6	Then...
1:15.6	I think God was in my side.
1:16.6	A Holocaust survivor and legal titan,
1:19.6	95-year-old Judge Theodore Moron joins me
1:22.6	with reflections on his life's work,
1:25.6	pursuing international justice. Plus, eat your ice cream.
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