Iceland is one of three countries that still permits commercial whaling. The activists headed to trial this week are calling on Icelandic officials to ban the practice permanently.By Teresa TomassoniAt 4 a.m. on Sept. 4, 2023, two environmental activists, Elissa Phillips and Anahita Sahar Babaei, climbed aboard a pair of aging whaling vessels moored side by side in Reykjavík harbor to stop them from heading out to sea. A temporary ban on killing whales in Iceland had just been lifted and the women believed the ships’ crew would soon resume their hunt. 

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