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Nick Mafi is an Iranian-American writer.

On the first Saturday morning in April I sat on my sofa in Brooklyn, drinking coffee, and watched the B1 bridge outside Tehran partly collapse on my phone. Iranian engineers had spent years building it. It was meant to connect Tehran to Karaj, a city where I have relatives and that I visited as a child. The bridge had yet to open to the public. An American bomb cut it in half while families nearby were celebrating Sizdah Bedar, the Persian holiday known as Nature Day. Reports say that at least eight people were killed. An engineer at the site told a French reporter that the bridge had been like a child........

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