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Manijeh Nasrabadi

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Iran and the US Anti-War Movement

[Iranian woman protester during the Green Movement, adapted for the Occupy Movement. Image by lmnopie, via Occupy Design.]

[This article is based on a talk given at the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) Conference on 24 March 2012 in Stamford, Connecticut. It was part of a workshop called, “Solidarity Not Intervention,” organized by Raha Iranian Feminist Collective. Just before this workshop, the conference overwhelmingly voted down a resolution put forward by Raha and Havaar: Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions, and State Repression that read: “We oppose war and sanctions against ...

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Letter from Tehran

[Image from www.irangenderequality.com]

[This interview was conducted in Tehran by Manijeh Nasrabadi of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective one year after the green uprising. For more from the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective, see their "Essential Readings: Iran"] On June 12, 2010, the tense one-year anniversary of the post-election uprising that made the color green an international symbol of a people’s democratic aspirations, hundreds of special security forces stood shoulder to shoulder along ...

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Bio

Manijeh Nasrabadi

 

Manijeh Nasrabadi is a PhD student in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her essays and articles have appeared in Comparative Studies of the South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Social Text online, About Face (Seal Press, 2008), Hyphen Magazine, Tehran Bureau, Callaloo, and vidaweb.org. She is a member of Raha Iranian Feminist Collective in New York City.