Mina Assadi (Persian: مینا اسدی; born March 12, 1943) is an Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden.
She is known for writing about controversial and provocative subjects, especially when she describes the fight against the Iranian government.
Assadi has also written songs for Iranian singers like Ebi ("Halah"), Dariush ("Zendegi yek bazieh" and "Ahay javoon"), Hayedeh ("Onkeh yek roozi barayeh man khoda bod"), Giti ("Oje parvaz"), Ramesh ("To aftabi, to baroni") and Nooshafarin ("Koh he ghavei") and Afshin ("delam az ru nemire) to name a few.
Ten days before the Iranian cultural personality and singer Fereydoun Farrokhzad was murdered in Germany on August 7, 1992, he had a poetry evening.
There, Fereydoun compared his late sister, the contemporary poet Forough Farrokhzad, to Mina Assadi.