| Nassrin Mughra | |
|---|---|
| |
| Status: | Alive |
| Nationality: |  Pakistani
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| Marital status: | Widowed |
| Spouse(s): | Abu Nazir (deceased) |
| Children: | Issa Nazir (deceased) 3 unnamed sons |
| Played by: | Naz Deravian |
| Season(s): | 3 |
| Appears in: | "Big Man in Tehran" |
Nassrin Mughrabi: Life is unlivable. But I survive.
Nassrin Mughrabi is the widow of Abu Nazir and the mother of Issa Nazir. (Saul's Game).
Novels[]
Nassrin Mughrabi is a character, who appears in the novel written by Andrew Kaplan:
Biography[]
Javadi arranges for Akbari to meet Nick Brody, but just out of reach, he drives off and sends Nicholas to his Iraqi brainwasher's widow Nassrin.
The CIA has since found out who Brody is meeting. Nassrin knows Brody and might find out if he can be trusted. Nassrin sees Brody as a hero, but Brody explains that it is difficult for him to see himself as a winner because he has paid a high price, especially when his daughter's suicide attempt has taken its toll.
Nassrin says Nazir prepared him for this, but Brody replies that she also had casualties. Nassrin admits that she struggles with that too. She wants to know why he has now come to Tehran and Brody explains that he no longer wants to have to flee.
Langley now believes Brody is a failure, a lost cause, and even a threat to asset Javadi, so Saul accepts he must be eliminated. Six days later, Brody has fled to Nassrin and says he urgently needs to talk to Akbari because he has secret information about Javadi.
Notes[]
The meeting with Abu Nazir's widow shook Brody and although it seemed that he considered aborting the mission, his words about Dana indicate that it never crossed his mind. Of all the mistakes he's made, Brody has never forgiven himself for disappointing his daughter. This was the main reason he tried to attack the United States, but Dana was always able to – willingly or not – direct Brody's actions.
The conversation with Akbari revealed a lot about Nazir from Brody's own perspective. While his widow spoke of divine plans, faith, conversion and life's purpose, the head of the guard shows that the plans were always political and military and that Brody was nothing more than a weapon of war for Abu Nazir.
Quotes[]
- Saul: What the fuck is happening? Akbari's leaving. They never met.
- Carrie: Akbari's gone. I think he's going inside the house.
- Saul: For the last fucking time, can we find out who lives there?
- A message from Javadi: "421 Rostami is owned by the IRGC. Current resident: Nassrin Mughrabi."
- Saul: "Carrie, Brody is meeting with Nassrin Mughrabi."
- Carrie: Nassrin.
- Saul: Who's that?
- Carrie: Abu Nazir's widow.
- Saul: Why did Akbari do this?
- Carrie: Brody lived in Nassrin's house for two years. Akbari's using her to vet Brody.
- Nassrin: When Akbari told me you were here, I couldn't believe it. But here you are. My Nicholas. I had no idea you were living in Tehran. It's been my home since Nazir died.
- Nicholas: I'm sorry, Nassrin. There was no one like him. No one.
- Nassrin: But I can see you have been through a lot. When I last saw you, you were like a soldier going to war.
- Nicholas: Now I'm a soldier back from war.
- Nassrin: With a victory.
- Nicholas: It's hard to see it like that. I lost so much. Your family. My daughter especially. When I- When I completed the plan that Allah had set out for me it destroyed her. She tried to kill herself.
- Nassrin: I'm sorry. It is hard when you don't have faith.
- Nicholas: She had faith. She had faith that her own father wouldn't betray her and make her life unlivable.
- Nassrin: Nazir prepared you for this. He said that if you were true to Allah, you would find peace. nd you were true.
- Nicholas: And so were you.
- Nassrin: Have you found peace?
- Nicholas: Sometimes. Yes.
- Nassrin: But sometimes I ask why God had to take my son and my husband instead of me. And then I feel like your daughter did. Life is unlivable. But I survive. It's what we do.
- Nicholas: Yes. We crawl out of the rubble, and we gather up the bodies.
- Nassrin: Why did you come to Tehran, Nicholas?
- Nicholas: I had nowhere else.
- Nassrin: What do you want here?
- Nicholas: I want to stop running.
- Nassrin: What you doing here?
- Nicholas: Tell us what you're doing here.
- Nassrin: What are you doing here?
- Nicholas: By the grace of God I am here to seek asylum. This is the only place in the world that I can find peace.
- Nassrin: You are a big man in Tehran, Brody. A really big man now. In your famous videotape, you said, "I love my country.
- Nicholas: "Which I meant.
- Nassrin: And yet America declares you an enemy of the state.
- Nicholas: There's a wide gulf between what America says it is and what it actually is.
- Nassrin: What are you looking at?
- Nicholas: The most recent insult.
- Nassrin: Does this explain your actions on December 12th?
- Nicholas: It does. Yes.