Shirin Ebadi

So it would have been an incredible

feeling for you to become the first female judge of Iran.

And it would have been devastating for you to become the clerk in the same office.

So tell me like what was going on in your mind at that time?

Like that whole, you know, the excitement of being there and being able to help people like women like yourself, courageous women who needed help or anyone who needed help and you representing something that the country never represented, like the first female judge and then being stripped away from all of that and say like, hey, like, you know, you become the clerk in the same court.

that's humiliating.

I don't know how to take that.

So I don't know how you were able to cope with that, what I would call humiliation, so to say.

She understands English.

She only wants to let the world know that the language is so beautiful.

Reema here, who is a Bahaiyan, right?

And she lost her uncle after the revolution.

And I know, having lived in Hyderabad, I grew up with a lot of friends who were Farsi friends.

So most of the

restaurants that are very popular in Hyderabad and Secondary Bad, all happen to be Iranian restaurants.

There's Irani Chai, Lukmi, Biryani.

These are the most popular things that you find, like the influence of the Nizam culture.

So I have always known the Iranian people to be far richer in culture.

For all the people who are listening, I don't want them to think that Iran is bad.

I want them to know that the Iranian rulers are bad.