After the Fall: Will Iran Be Free or Just Different? |
People ask me sometimes: what do you want for Iran?
I pause. Not because I don’t have an answer. But because the honest answer is complicated and complicated answers make people uncomfortable.
I want Iran to be free. Of course I do. I left everything behind because I refused to live under a regime that treats its own people like enemies. I have spent years in exile, carrying a country inside me that no longer exists the way I remember it. The Iran I loved was never the Islamic Republic. It was the people, the........