Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Op-ed contributor

As former prisoner, I feel sick about US handling of Iran

Another young girl, Zahra Hatami, recently committed suicide after being expelled from school for the “crime” of wearing nail polish. She threw herself from the top of a building near her school, unable to cope with Iran’s gender apartheid. She was in 8th grade. The Biden administration did not execute these women, but has blood on its hands all the same, having enabled and emboldened the Iranian regime rather than resisting it.

As former prisoner, I feel sick about US handling of Iran