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Rima Shir-Mohammadi

May 19, 2026

47:58
... like, it's a fascinating story.
47:59
Well, the amazing th- she, she says she shares a story which I really think, um, those who listen to this podcast would absolutely love.
48:08
You know, as a child she said that her parents had the choice to go and live in a city, and her father, like my mom, Baha'i, [laughs] he decided that they would go to a rural area, to a small town, to be, to live there with the people.
48:22
And, and, uh, she said that, "I was, I was a child, and I realized, uh, one day my dad said, 'This is not possible that we live in a place where after dark no one dares to go outside because there's no electricity.'"There's no light in the street.
48:36
And, uh, so she said, "My dad started asking all his friends to help out with this project of buying, uh, of buying, uh, you know, something that will allow the, the, the, this, this little village, uh, have light at night, so the kids can come out and it feels face, uh, safe for them." Um, so they, he, he got money from all his, uh, friends and they bought this generator.
49:03
And, uh, she said it was really thanks to what he did that that village had light and people were a- able to come out in the street and have something.
49:12
And he, she said after the revolution, the cle- the clergyman from a next, uh, from a near village, he said that, uh, you know, "You have to go after that family and expel them from this village.

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