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On February 21, 1994, in the middle of a square in Tehran, a screaming woman poured gasoline over herself and ignited it. Her last cries to the gathering crowd were "Death to tyranny! Long live freedom! Long live Iran!" In the early hours of the California morning, Parvin Darabi was... read more

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First Sentence

When my uncle Hossain called from Iran to tell me what had happened, my sister had already been buried.

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  1. Parvin Darabi (Author)

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