{"id":21472,"date":"2025-07-12T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nobel-peace-prize-laureate-says-iran-threatens-her-life-after-its-war-with-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:01:17","slug":"nobel-peace-prize-laureate-says-iran-threatens-her-life-after-its-war-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nobel-peace-prize-laureate-says-iran-threatens-her-life-after-its-war-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Prize laureate says Iran threatens her life after its war with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leader of the Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen presents the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to Ali, right, and Kiana Rahmani, for their mother, imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, in Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (Fredrik Varfjell\/NTB)<\/span>Fredrik Varfjell<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2013 Iran\u2019s security services have threatened the life of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi after her native country\u2019s war with Israel, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and activists said Friday.<\/p>\n

Mohammadi said that the threats have come through both her lawyer and other indirect channels as she\u2019s kept up public statements about the Islamic Republic\u2019s theocracy, women\u2019s rights and others issues, the committee said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clear message, in her own words, is that \u2018I have been directly and indirectly threatened with \u2018physical elimination\u2019 by agents of the regime,\u2019\u201d the committee said in its announcement.<\/p>\n

The Free Narges Coalition Steering Committee, which advocates for the 53-year-old laureate, said that the threats came from Iran\u2019s Intelligence Ministry. Iran\u2019s government hasn\u2019t responded to Mohammadi\u2019s recent remarks, and Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations in New York didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The warnings about Mohammadi came as Iran has made arrests and conducted executions in the wake of the 12-day war with Israel, raising concerns of a further possible crackdown targeting human rights activists and others.<\/p>\n

Mohammadi has been giving a series of interviews with media abroad during the war, further raising her profile, while Israel at one point began striking targets synonymous with Iran\u2019s ruling theocracy. She herself fled Tehran for a time during the Israeli airstrikes and said: \u201cWar does not have the capacity for the fundamental transformation that the Iranian people seek.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Iran, there is a misogynistic and religious government helmed by (Supreme Leader Ayatollah) Ali Khamenei who has taken us to hell while promising paradise,\u201d Mohammadi told the Wall Street Journal recently. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cis taking us to hell while promising freedom and democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammadi has been out on a medical furlough from prison, where she is serving 13 years and nine months on charges of collusion against state security and propaganda against Iran\u2019s government. She has kept up her activism, despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. That includes backing the nationwide, women-led protests sparked by the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, which have seen women openly defy the government by not wearing the hijab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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