Homa Darabi

Homa Darabi ( - February 21, 1994) was a pediatrician from Iran licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey, New York, and California. She returned to Iran in 1976 to serve her country as a psychiatrist and after the Islamic Revolution, Islamic authorities shut down her office because she had refused to wear the hijab.

On 21 February 1994, Darabi, a 54 year old mother of two daughters immolated herself in Tehran while shouting ''“Death to Tyranny! Long live freedom! Long live Iran!”''. Later, her sister Parvin Darabi named the Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation in her remembrance and co-authored with her son, a biography of Dr. Darabi, Rage Against the Veil