WorldcrunchWhile living in Iran, Firoozeh Ramezanzadeh Nordstrom worked with several news agencies including Tosee newspaper, Etemad, Sarmayeh, Farhange Ashti, and Ilna news agency. Now Firoozeh Ramezanzadeh is a journalist for a London based news organization Kayhan-London.
The “eye-for-an-eye” principle does not technically apply to so-called honor killings. Yet fathers and grandfathers are essentially free to kill their daughters or granddaughters if it’s perceived to protect the reputation and religious status of the family.
Ending a pregnancy has become a major complication, and a crime, for Iranian women who cannot or will not have children in a country wracked by socio-economic woes and a leadership crisis.