'Close the doors of diplomacy toward dictators' Iranian activist calls out German government

Masih Alinejad is a prominent and internationally active critic of the Iranian regime. A journalist and activist, she left Iran in 2009 for the United States, where she currently lives. While on a visit in Berlin to commemorate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she learned that U.S. authorities had foiled another months-long assassination plot against her ordered by the Iranian regime.

DW’s political correspondent Giulia Saudelli discussed with her the dangers of being an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime and what she thinks Western countries should do to support women in Iran.

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