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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Today, stories of Iranians

who are staying under the country's oppressive regime to fight for their full right to

exist. In a powerful talk at TED 2023,

actor and activist Golshifta Farahani

reminds us that the plight of Iranian women

echoes across the rest of the world.

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I am Massa. I am 22 years old. I am from Kurdistan.

I came on vacation to Tehran for two days with my brother. I got arrested for not

wearing my veil properly. Then I was beaten repeatedly and eventually went into a coma and died

I am Nika I'm 16 years old I dressed all in black took my my water bottle, and a small towel to protect myself from tear gas.

I went on the street to protest. I got kidnapped, tortured. I am Nika's shattered skull.

I am her battered body, delivered to her family ten days after she got kidnapped. Eventually she was buried without warning in some faraway cemetery.

I am Puyah. I went to protest with my mother. She said, don't let go of my hand. But I did. And I got shot. I died in front of her eyes.

I'm Kian. I'm only 10 years old.

I wanted to become a scientist,

but my body was riddled with bullets. I am the boat on wheels he made with

his little hands, carrying 70 more children over the rainbow, killed in a similar way. I am Kian's father who was shot and

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