What is it like to watch your country go up in flames from afar, torn apart by political dissension? Roya Hakakian, an Iranian who lives in political asylum here in the United States and is the author of Journey from the Land of No, and Azar Nafisi, author of Things I’ve Been Silent About and Reading Lolita in Tehran, join us to offer their perspectives on what's happening in Iran.
Azar Nafisi was on teh Leonard Lopate Show in January to discuss Things I've Been Silent About. You can listen to the interview here.
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Comments [4]
Mousavi was vetted and cleared to run for office because he's a regime insider -- and yet some people think he presented such a large threat to the regime that they had to resort to massive election fraud to keep him out office? Use your brains.
There's no actual evidence of election fraud in Iran. Such claims and counter-claims have been compiled at IranAffairs.com --go see for yourself.
The caller's argument about pre-election polls favoring Amendinijade fail to note that the polls changed radically the week before the vote, favoring Moussavi.
WHAT KIND OF CHANGES DO WE EXPECT TO SEE IN MUSAVI AFTER WHAT HAPPEN IN THE 70'S WITH THE SEIZURE OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY AND HELD THE AMERICANS FOR 443 DAYS. HOW CAN WE FORGET THAT. LEONARD, CAN YOU PLEASE TALK ABOUT THAT.
Great. Excellent. I'd like to hear "watching Honduras" too. There are a bit more than a million of us here in the States... And all we get are Jason Baubien's quotes from the "one-guy multi-owned honduran press".
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