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Certainly, the fight against terrorism is a legitimate fight. And certainly whoever commits terrorism should be brought to justice.

Shirin Ebadi

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Shirin Ebadi
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 21
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Cyrine Abadi
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Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.
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How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
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Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel.
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Democracy doesn't recognize east or west democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy there is just democracy itself.
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