“When we named George Floyd, that gave the movement power. Concern for those protesting and detainedĪccording to the three, the movement has echoes to the Black Lives Matter movement that featured protestors of all races around the world marching while shouting “Say Their Names!” and uplifting those killed stateside by lethal police force - George Floyd, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, Eric Garner and many other Black people in recent years.

five years later, growing up in New York. Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Farnosh Family, who was born in Tehran, Iran in 1980 and moved to the U.S. The connection between the two Kians had her reaching for a box of tissues she mentioned that she could look forward to seeing her Kian when she went home, although the other mother no longer can. Crowd control in Iran involves the regime shooting into crowds, she said. She said her child’s name is Kian, the same first name as a 9-year-old boy shot to death in Iran while riding in a car with his father when they left a protest. And it’s been very, very difficult,” Family said. “There is so much hope that is built into right now, but it is also so painful because we’re seeing this daily brutality and bloodshed and lives lost. She lives with her husband and her two kids, ages 7 and 9. She came to Colorado 10 years ago and now owns and runs a small packaged food company that sells ghee, a clarified butter, and other products to grocery stores. The lives of many people have been lost in a revolutionary effort, according to Farnosh Family, who was born in Tehran in 1980 and moved to the U.S.

“These are athletes these are our next scientists, and we are losing them one by one,” she said. She is an Associate Professor in Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and the Acting Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Since 2011, she has worked at CU Boulder, training aspiring engineers to be globally engaged in research and practice. And yet they’re being executed in the most inhumane way - they’re being tortured and forced into false confessions and then executions,” Shideh Dashti said.ĭashti participated in the roundtable interview virtually, but her voice was just as emotion-filled from a distance.ĭashti grew up in Tehran and moved to the United States in 1999. They should be praised and medaled for bravery and protecting their sisters and others in the crowd. “We are talking about 20-year-olds who are completely innocent. It’s like your body is here and not here.”Ĭourtesy of Shideh Dashti Shideh Dashti's CU Boulder profile picture, taken on CU Boulder campus in 2018. “It’s very hard to be functional in a country that is having a different life, a different experience, and then you are divided between two different realities. “It’s very hard to be an Iranian in a body that is safe right now,” said Poupeh Missaghi, an assistant professor of Literary Arts and Studies at the University of Denver and Persian-English creative writer and translator who lives in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. All in their early 40s, they visited Colorado Matters this week to share insights into the women-led resistance to the Iranian regime that is keeping them up at night and giving them nightmares, as they learn of events from a distance.

The death of Mahsa Zhina Amini and two executions of protesters in one week stemming from the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising that followed Amini's killing are not always top of mind for American audiences.īut those events are all that three Colorado women of Iranian descent can think about.

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