A Second Hand Conjecture

I am not writing this post because the former Miss World Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam is one of the hottest women on our planet.

Nor am I writing this because she helped save the life of a young Iranian girl sentenced to death for defending herself from a sexual assault. From Gateway:

Nazanin was opposed to the death penalty being applied to 18-year-old namesake Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, who had been sentenced to hang for stabbing one of three men who tried to rape her and her niece in Karaj in March 2005. She started a campaign to help save the life of this minor including a petition which attracted more than 350,000 signatures worldwide….Eventually, Nazanin Fatehi was found innocent and was released on January 31, 2007.

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Born in Tehran during the turmoil of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Nazanin’s family was forced to leave all their worldly possessions behind and flee to freedom, when her father had been jailed and tortured by the Revolutionary Guard under the new regime. Awaiting execution, it was the family’s escape to Europe that saved them from political persecution. Faced with adversity so early in life, the revolution impacted her core.

I am writing this because Nazanin has released her first album including a song dedicated to the struggle she has long championed for the ending of the rule of the mullahs, being also released in Farsi. The video has been released and is on YouTube. Filled with scenes from the Iranian Revolution and democratic revolutionary movements the world over, I hope it pops up on computers throughout Iran.

The rest of the album, and “Someday” with higher quality audio can be found by clicking on the image below:

Gateway has another post on her as well:

Nazanin Afshin-Jam Discusses Jailed Iranian Women Activists

Allah has a clip from Nazanin’s appearance on the O’Reilly show discussing her efforts on behalf of children facing execution in Iran. You can visit her website at StopChildExecutions.com. Of course Allah is a man of a far more prurient nature than I, so he introduces the clip with this little objectifying comment:

Afshin-Jam’s a former Miss World Canada, by the way, and it’s not hard to see why. Good lord.

Tolerate his shallow regressive nature dear readers.

The image below links to an interview with Nanzanin on the subject of human rights and various efforts on that front with Iranian News outlet Payvand:

Thanks Nazanin.

Update: I have been told there are not enough pictures and I have reluctantly given in:

Maybe I’ll put up more later.

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