Narges Mohammadi's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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Narges Mohammadi (Persian: نرگس محمدی; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The birth-card coordinate for April 21 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2023 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2023 The Nobel Peace Prize — for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all

The King of Clubs coordinate

Narges Mohammadi's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Narges Mohammadi. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Narges Mohammadi in the public record

Between 1998 and October 2023, Mohammadi was arrested 13 times and sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. She has been the recipient of many human rights awards. In October 2023, while in prison, she was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all". Narges Mohammadi was born on 21 April 1972 in Zanjan, Iran, to an Iranian Azerbaijani family. After graduating from high school, she attended Qazvin International University, receiving a degree in applied physics. While at university, she co-founded the group "Tashakkol Daaneshjooei Roshangaraan" (The Illuminating Student Group, or a group that sheds light on complex issues), also known as "Enlighteners". They explored the concept of Neo-Shariatism, and advocated for a secular democracy. The group's activism met with threats from the university and the pro-regime groups and Narges was twice arrested.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Narges Mohammadi (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

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While at the center, Mohammadi worked to establish independent human rights institutions, including the Committee for the Defense of Free and Fair Elections, the Committee for Abolishing the Death Penalty for Children, and the National Peace Council, a group of 82 political, social, civil, cultural, trade union and human rights leaders.

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Also on the record

1. Also while in university, Narges started a mountain-climbing group for women and men, something which was not allowed.
2. Mohammadi began her journalism career in 1996, writing about women's rights, human rights and the student movement in the progressive magazine Payam Hajar, where she became a member of the editorial board.
3. When the Iranian judiciary conducted a wide-spread repression campaign against journalists in 1999, she lost her job and went to work as an inspector for the Iran Engineering Inspection Company.
4. In 2009, she was fired from this post, under orders from authorities, due to her involvement with the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights, and the Defenders of Human Rights Center, where she was on the supervisory council, head of the Center's committee on women's rights, and deputy to its co-founder Shirin Ebadi.

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Narges Mohammadi's birth card?

The King of Clubs. April 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do Narges Mohammadi's dates come from?

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