Education
Darabi studied medicine in United States and returned to Iran in 1976 to serve as a psychiatrist.
psychiatrist university professor
Darabi studied medicine in United States and returned to Iran in 1976 to serve as a psychiatrist.
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Islamic authorities shut down her office because she had refused to wear the compulsory Islamic dress in the form of chador. On Monday, February 21, 1994, about a month after a 16-year-old girl was shot to death in Tehran for wearing lipstick, Darabi immolated herself in one the most well-known squares of Tehran while shouting "Death to Tyranny! Long live freedom! Long live Iran!"
Parvin Darabi also co-authored a biography of Doctor Darabi called, Rage Against the Veil.