Farideh Moradkhani

Farideh Moradkhani
Persian: فریده مرادخانی
Born
Farideh Moradkhani

1971 (age 53)
OccupationHuman rights activist
RelativesAli Tehrani (father)
Badri Khamenei (mother)
Ali Khamenei (uncle)

Farideh Moradkhani (Persian: فریده مرادخانی) is an Iranian engineer and human rights activist. She is a niece of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Mordkhani has been detained multiple times, including a January 2022 arrest which sent her to section 209 of Evin Prison, possibly due to praising the ousted pre-revolutionary empress Farah Diba and suggesting she be allowed to return to Iran.[1] Mordkhani was subsequently released on bail.[2]

On 23 November 2022, Mordkhani was arrested after going to a prosecutor's office following a summons.[3]

On 25 November 2022, her France-based brother Mahmoud Moradkhani shared a video, in which she called on foreign governments to cut all links with Tehran's "murderous and child-killing" regime, and stated: "This regime is not loyal to any of its religious principles and does not know any laws or rules except force and maintaining its power in any possible way".[3] She also criticized what she described as the inaction of the United Nations, that in front of "obvious and cruel oppression of the Iranian people" issued ″only a few expressions of regret and short and ineffective statements″.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Iran arrests Khamenei's niece after she praises widow of ousted shah". www.timesofisrael.com. January 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  2. ^ Humayun, Hira (27 November 2022). "Niece of Iran's supreme leader calls on foreign governments to cut ties with Iranian regime". CNN. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b Chrisafis, Angelique (27 November 2022). "Niece of Iran's supreme leader calls on other countries to cut ties with regime". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 November 2022.