--- description: Narges Mohammadi is a human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Narges Mohammadii ## Narges Mohammadii Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Narges Mohammadi is a human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights. ## Narges Mohammadii Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Dec 5, 2025 ### [Iran Is Still At War—With Its People](https://time.com/7338618/iran-war-with-people-government-protests/) Decades of protest show Iranians are pushing for non-violent democratic change—and the world’s solid... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 25, 2025 ### [نرگس محمدی، برنده نوبل صلح: از دست رفتن دموکراسی چه آسان است و چه معنایی دارد](https://time.com/7297614/narges-mohammadi-iran-america-democracy-essay-farsi/) در پیامی هشدارآمیز، نرگس محمدی به مردم جوامع دموکراتک مانند آمریکا یادآور می‌شود: حقوق و آزادی‌هایی ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 25, 2025 ### [Narges Mohammadi: "What It Means to Lose Democracy"](https://time.com/7297668/narges-mohammadi-iran-america-democracy-essay/) The Iranian Nobel Laureate warns Americans the rights and freedoms we take for granted are not guara... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 7, 2025 ### [Iran's Hope on International Women's Day](https://time.com/7265646/iran-international-womens-day-narges-mohammadi-nobel/) The hard-won gains of Iranian women in the 2022 harken to the March 8, 1979 protests that forced cl... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/narges-mohammadi/","name":"Narges Mohammadii"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/narges-mohammadi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/narges-mohammadi/"},"name":"Narges Mohammadii","jobTitle":"Human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights.","description":"Narges Mohammadi is a human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights.","url":"https://time.com/author/narges-mohammadi/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```