ALBAWABA - The name of Faezeh Hashimi Rafsanjani has been trending on the social media for quite a while now. In fact, she is a celebrity in her own right, outdoing her late father Hashimi Rafsanjani who once president of Iran in the 1990s.
The daughter of former #Iranian President Akbar Hashemi #Rafsanjani has been charged with “propaganda activity against the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and blasphemy.” https://t.co/Swl3LN9zAR from @RFERL pic.twitter.com/Dky0ipoTCr
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Faezeh (59) and a former MP in the Iranian Majlis, continues to be a handful. She is an outspoken extrovert fighting for women's rights. It can be argued, this is why she is in legal trouble with the authorities who, apparently, have had enough of her comments and wanting to change things.
Ex-Iran president's daughter charged with propaganda, blasphemy https://t.co/CuuCk6EolP: This family [Hashemi-Rafsanjani] is just bad news for the Islamic Republic, as they are for millions of Iranians: Faezeh Rafsanjani is a counter-revolutionary & she deserves a harsh sentence!
— Teimour Bakhtiar (@TeimourBakhtiar) July 3, 2022
Today she is being charged with the Iranian prosecutor with propaganda activity against the "system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and blasphemy." What could this mean it is being wondered?
Published by Al-ArabyThe daughter of Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was charged with carrying out propaganda activity against the country and blasphemy in social media comments, the judiciary said Sunday. "The indictment...https://t.co/KKnQBPZtV1 pic.twitter.com/ugfo5yHZDh
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Well, she is being accused of speaking out against Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard. She says Iran's insistence on the organization's removal from the US "terror list" as a precondition to moving on with the nuclear accord is a hindrance.
The second charge is blasphemy involving her comment that Prophet Mohammad's wife Khadija was a successful businesswoman and therefore women in Iran today must be given greater rights with the implication being she was making light of the matter.
If found guilty she could go to prison but that's not that bad since Faezeh has already been in jail for six months in 2012 for allegedly speaking against the government.
