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  • She espouses a liberal view of Islam appreciated by many Muslim feminists. ebtekar, her excellency dr masoumeh Ebtekar was the first female vice president of Iran.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows AlHaqqNetwork 2010

  • Regime change was a very simple matter, Ebtekar recalled.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • The Iranian daily Ebtekar reportedly published a headline on its front page saying, "President Ahmadinejad: Maradona might be head coach of the national team."

    Diego Maradona Not Ruling Out Coaching Iran: Report The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • “The Americans had been seriously engaged in affairs that were much more than gathering information, even much more than espionage,” Massoumeh Ebtekar told me years later.73 She had been the spokeswoman for the militant students, a college freshman who had spent her youth in America and became known to a rapt U.S. television audience as “Mary.”

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • The Iranian daily Ebtekar reportedly published a headline on its front page saying, "President Ahmadinejad: Maradona might be head coach of the national team."

    Diego Maradona Not Ruling Out Coaching Iran: Report The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Convinced of the justice of their cause, relates Mary/Ebtekar in her memoir, they “burst into the inner sanctum of a superpower and humbled it.”

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Speaking to me in American-accented English, Mary/Ebtekar said that Americans should be the first to recognize the Iranian impulse toward justice and freedom, since those ideals were brought into her life in the United States, and later at an American-style school in Tehran.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • The problem was the “contrast between what I saw in Iran, and what I expected to see, and what American policy was in Iran, and what it professed to be, with freedom and democracy,” Ebtekar told me, sometimes smiling in a black chador that framed her round face in a perfect oval.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • THE STUDENTS WERE IDEALISTIC and naïve, Mary/Ebtekar readily admits, and unaware or uncaring about the personal trauma they were about to inflict—or the mutual U.S.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Nilufar Ebtekar, the notorious spokeswoman for Students Following the Imam's Line, who has since changed her first name to Massoumeh, now serves as a vice-president of Iran and as minister for the environment.

    Mahmoud the Bashful 2005

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