Darabi had risen from a student activist to a civil rights leader and moved on to a brilliant career in medicine as a premier psychiatrist, teaching at the University of Tehran, and establishing the first clinic in Iran to treat children's mental disorders.In this moving memoir, Darabi's sister,Parvin, and her son, Romin P. Homa Darabi, a lifelong advocate of civil rights and the first Iranian ever to be accepted into the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

The crowd watched in horror as this woman, who had shouted, 'Death to tyranny! Long live freedom!', committed a slow, painful suicide in a last, desperate attempt to make the world aware of the slavelike conditions of women living in Iran.A shockwave was felt in the American medical and feminist communities as well as in the Iranian political regime when the media reported that the self-appointed martyr was well-respected Dr.

Parvin along with Lydia Sparksworthy co-authored a book 'Women of Truckee Making History' which chronicles the lives of 30 influential women in Truckee.ĭarabi has said that there are many laws in Islam that would turn off any educated person completely, one of them being the temporary marriage which she terms as 'religiously sanctioned prostitution.' Darabi has said that the only thing the Islamic Republic of Iran brought was poverty and misery.On February 21, 1994, a gesticulating and screaming woman entered a crowded public square in Tehran, removed her government-mandated veil and full coat, poured gasoline on her body and lit herself on fire. Since then, Parvin has become an activist, writing the book Rage Against the Veil and speaking out on many occasions against Iran's government and the religion of Islam as whole. Her elder sister, Homa Darabi, committed suicide in 1994 by burning herself in a public square in Iran to protest against the Iranian government.

From 1985 to 1990 she owned and operated her own Company PT Enterprises, in Mountain View, California where they developed the most sensitive Radar Detector presently on the German Naval Vessels active in NATO. Parvin worked as an electronic systems engineer, program manager, company president, and engineering consultant until 1994. Darabi studied at California State University Northridge, University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, and California Coast University.

Rage Against the Veil by Parvin Darabi