.......The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi (born 1972) “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nobel_Peace_Prize
For an anti-regime Iranian, the Nobel Peace Prize is NOT a booby prize!
54 is young! Her ill health is the result of her mistreatment in prison! May our gracious God free her from the vicious mullah regime, and bring the Iranian/Persian people into His Holy Church!
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Martyrs Simeon, Isaac and Bachtisius, of Persia
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/05/18/101426-martyrs-simeon-isaac-and-bachtisius-of-persia
Commemorated on May 18
Troparion
Your holy martyrs Simeon, Isaac, and Bachtisius, O Lord, / through their sufferings have received incorruptible crowns from You, our God. / For having Your strength, they laid low their adversaries, / and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. / Through their intercessions, save our souls!
“For an anti-regime Iranian, the Nobel Peace Prize is NOT a booby prize!”
The prize demeans her, as it would Donald Trump. The prize was given to Yasser Arafat and BHO, FGSK! But even so, she deserves a real prize one day, for standing up to that evil regime. Perhaps Trump will award one, or a grateful Congress, or better yet, the newly-liberated nation of Iran.