Yasmin Falahat, a young woman of Iranian descent, is now a citizen of France and Is pursuing her career in the field of engineering, she has been accepting French nationality to enable her to pursue her career as an Engineer. In her early twenties, Falahat moved to France from Iran with her parents and sisters. She had undergone numerous academic and personal difficulties due to the systematic discrimination and physical abuse she had faced at the hands of her Iranian family. Despite her status of “Diaspora” woman, her efforts to acquire a degree from an American University proved fruitless, despite her high school classmates who availed of the opportunity to study abroad. This failure of hers forced her to take up an academic scholarship offered by the University of Paris and later on, in 1998, she gained a degree in Law (LLM).
During the period of her studies, while pursuing a Bachelors degree, Yasmin Falahat was arrested under the accusation of involvement in a terrorist plot organized by radical Islamic students from abroad. She was repeatedly tortured in custody and subjected to death threats. In the end, she fled to France to seek refuge with relatives who also belong to the Islamic faith and to this day, she has not been able to visit Iran. Nevertheless, she continued to work and pursue her career in the profession of law, even though the scars of her torture linger in her mind and memory.
In her attempt to return to Iran, however, Yasmin Falahat was denied a visa by the IRAN ministry and remained in France as a foreign national. Faced with the threat of torture if she returns to Iran, Yasmin Falahat decided to move on and complete her education in the country of her birth, France. Her efforts were finally rewarded when President George W. Bush lifted the ban on the issuance of tourist visas for citizens of certain countries in June 2021. Although several members of the Islamic faith have been welcomed into France as citizens, including Yasmin Falahat, many remain wary of association with the country of her birth, arguing that by doing so, they are doing a double betrayal of their faith.