Yes, I would love to know more on Iran! It's really hard to get anything like accurate reporting from inside Iran - and I was really trying especially around the time of the Mahsa Amini protests. More and more, I'm realizing how much the 1979 revolution shaped the whole contemporary world. When I was growing up, Iran seemed quiet and iso…
Yes, I would love to know more on Iran! It's really hard to get anything like accurate reporting from inside Iran - and I was really trying especially around the time of the Mahsa Amini protests. More and more, I'm realizing how much the 1979 revolution shaped the whole contemporary world. When I was growing up, Iran seemed quiet and isolated and not that big of a deal. But Iran was the chief beneficiary of the Iraq War and is really the force to be reckoned with across the Middle East - especially at a moment when US power seems to be relatively diminished.
Yes, I would love to know more on Iran! It's really hard to get anything like accurate reporting from inside Iran - and I was really trying especially around the time of the Mahsa Amini protests. More and more, I'm realizing how much the 1979 revolution shaped the whole contemporary world. When I was growing up, Iran seemed quiet and isolated and not that big of a deal. But Iran was the chief beneficiary of the Iraq War and is really the force to be reckoned with across the Middle East - especially at a moment when US power seems to be relatively diminished.