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I started reading this wonderful book and just realised that today Sept 10th is the birthday of Mona Mahmoudnizhad. Had she lived she would’ve been 57. Known as “The Angel of Shiraz” for her humanitarian work in orphanages, she was hanged aged just 16 along with 9 other women on June 18th 1983 (see pinned tweet) just for being a Bahá’í. Most Iranians are now aware of her story. And what the regime were doing so shamefully to Bahá’ís back in the 1980s they are doing now to anyone who questions them. Hence the #OurStoryIsOne campaign. As a certain Mr. Samandari once said - prophetically - to Mona’s mother a few weeks after she was born: “Nurture this babe well with your own milk. One day she will cause the world to cry out!” She did. And we continue to cry out in her name.