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‘I wished immediate death to my mother, I did not want her to be tortured’

Mona Mahmoudi’s parents were among the first members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority to be executed under the Islamic Republic’s decades-long crackdown. When her mother, the country’s first female meteorologist, was arrested along with seven others, her daughter wished for her immediate execution. “I knew they were going to be executed and I was hoping… Read More »