Omnia Al Desoukie
In 1999, Fatima Nedaei, a thirty-six-year-old widow in Tehran, decided that it was time for her family to leave Iran. She had long bristled at the idea of raising her children in such a restrictive environment—a society remade by the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which had gutted civil liberties, and destabilized the region. When Nedaei’s husband was still alive, she had broached the possibility of leaving. But he had refused, and, under Iranian law at the time, a married woman typically needed her husband’s consent to obtain travel documents. It was after he died, several years later, that she began making arrangements to emigrate.
“She was very brave,” her son Mohammad told me recently. “She was the only one in the family who decided to leave Iran. Everyone was against her decision. But she wanted her children to grow up in a safe and open country.”
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