Podcast: A Conversation With An Iranian Dissident
So this writer was on The Five Wednesday, discussing the war in Iran and conditions on the ground there. I mentioned that some of what I said was informed by an interview I had done with an Iranian dissident — a young man who described Iranians as seeking a more secular society, post-mullahs. This young man in fact described the advent and growth of Islam in Iran as something imposed on Iranians, to the detriment of their 2500-year-old Persian culture.
Whether you agree with that or not, it is certainly a viewpoint one doesn’t hear often. And considering the source… something to be taken…
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