Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi ‘disappointed’ by outcome of Iran’s Islamic Revolution
By France24
14 February 2019 |
8:29 am
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi 'disappointed' by outcome of Iran's Islamic Revolution.
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