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Nassim Khadem

Masih Alinejad is fighting Iran's leaders and inspiring the country's women to rise up

Masih Alinejad is under attack.

"The Iranian government is scared of me and I'm only 45 kilos," says Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and human rights activist who was banned from reporting in Iran and driven into exile 13 years ago. 

She lives in New York, and after two known assassination attempts, she and her husband Kambiz Foroohar, a former reporter for Bloomberg, have been forced to go under FBI protection.

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