PARIS: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says her greatest fear is dying without seeing her teenage twins again after more than a decade of separation.
In her new memoir, “A Woman Never Stops Fighting,” Mohammadi recalls saying goodbye to her children, Kiana and Ali, in July 2015 before they left for Paris. She remained imprisoned at the time in Tehran’s Evin prison.
“I felt as though a vast void had opened inside me,” she writes. As their plane departed, Mohammadi said she understood that her children had to leave Iran for their safety, but struggled with the pain of separation.
“At the same time, I was a mother, and I was drowning,” she writes. “I would likely not see Kiana and Ali again, at least not for a long time. And how could I live without seeing my children?”
Mohammadi, 54, was released from prison on health grounds in May. She has been imprisoned repeatedly, including during the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 and was later detained again during mass demonstrations this year and after the outbreak of the US-Iran war on Feb. 28.
When bombing was heard around Tehran, Mohammadi wrote that she feared she might die without ever seeing her children again.
“I had promised myself that I would survive,” she said. “I had to stay alive so that Kiana and Ali would never have to endure that unbearable moment — the moment of learning of their mother’s death.”
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