“In the past, there were red lines people believed the regime would never cross, but no red “What is to be gained from confiscating Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Prize or assaulting her husband? It’s almost as if Iran is trying to parody a gratuitously cruel, dictatorial regime.”
The government’s focus on Ebadi seems to be designed to hit her before she regains too much power as the thorniest critic in the government’s side. But the seizure of her Nobel medal and the threats against her family seem poorly calculated. “The irony of all this is that such policies give Ms. Ebadi more prominence,” says Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii. “In effect they make her harassment itself the human-rights message that they are trying so hard to prevent her from expressing !
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