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A single look from Masih Alinejad is enough for him to gauge his interlocutor.
A smile, benevolent, embellished with a comment from her husband, protector and confidant, Kambiz Foroohar:
"It's good, he doesn't look dangerous."
Even in the lobby of a big hotel in Manhattan, two precautions are better than one.
Masih Alinejad, 46, is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Iranian regime's worst nightmare.
She is the one who blows passionately on the embers of the popular revolt that occurred after the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, killed in prison on September 16 for having let a few shy locks of her veil stick out.
From night to night, the fire is now spreading to more than 80 cities in Iran.
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Native of the small village of Ghomi Kola (north-east), Masih has been a rebel since a young age.
She has always claimed the right to drop the veil, taking advantage of a very slight relaxation of social laws under the reign of reformer Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005)…
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