Daughter of an Iranian Ayatollah Fights for Peace

By Published on April 27, 2015

It was during a trip to Lebanon that Faghihimani had a revelation, and it changed her beliefs about Iran and Israel once and for all.

While there, friends of hers with close political ties to Hezbollah had her sipping coffee with some of the organization’s most senior figures.

“There was a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon at the time but we could see that Hezbollah fighters were sending rockets to the Shebaa farms and then denying they had done so on Arab media,” Faghihimani said. She explained that she also found it strange that the Hezbollah fighters she would meet—Lebanese Arabs—were speaking Persian so fluently. This immediately signaled to her that they had all received training from the revolutionary guards in Tehran.

“When I would ask about their training, people would say that it wasn’t true and that Israel had made all of this up,” she said. “This was a turn in my thinking about the information I had learned about Israel and the conflict.” It was at this point where Faghihimani did a 180.

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