Iran’s cultural explosion: is it real or state controlled? | Eye for Iran | EP 80
This week on Eye for Iran, we look at Iran through three connected lenses: history, culture, and a society that some say is transforming in real time.
First, Ambassador John Limbert – one of the American diplomats taken hostage in 1979 – reflects on what he witnessed in the early days of the revolution, how the Islamic Republic has (and hasn’t) changed over five decades, and why the hostility between Washington and Tehran has outlasted the Cold War. He reacts to Donald Trump’s assertion that “Iran is a bully no more,” and explains why he’s wary of predictions about the Islamic Republic's…
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