US EditionPodcast #320: Fighting for Freedom in Iran
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Podcast #320: Fighting for Freedom in Iran
My guest today is Roya Hakakian. It’s a great pleasure to welcome Roya back onto this podcast. She is a Jewish Iranian poet, journalist, and writer and is the author of three books. Assassins of the Turquoise Palace details the murders of four Iranian Kurdish leaders in Berlin in 1992 and the historic aftermath of those events; she has also authored a book-length love letter to her adoptive country, A Beginner’s Guide to America for the Immigran…
Will the new outbreak of protest that has emerged at the end of December, which continues to spread in the country, be repressed as the previous ones have been?
The demonstrations in Iran, which began on 28 December in Tehran, following a mobilization of small traders and then of the great Bazar, quickly expanded, to concentrate first in the major urban centres and in the area of Ilam. The first demonstrations of very large scale took place in the area of Ilam, on the border with Iraq, whose population is predominantly Kurdish. In the city of Abdanan, which has about 20,000 inhabitants, large demonstrat…
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