National Public Radio (NPR)
Growing up, I didn't feel a strong connection to Iran. I wasn't born there and I've only visited once in my life. As a kid, I remember tuning my dad out every time he talked about Iranian politics. And they were definitely conversations to avoid around the dinner table, because they usually ended with him dropping the f-word — fascist. My dad seemed addicted to conspiracy theories involving the government. I always figured that it couldn't be as bad as he said it was. But now that Iran's big fake lever of democracy has been revealed for what it is, I sympathize with my dad a lot more.
When millions of people began protesting the Iranian election results, it suddenly felt very personal. My aunt and uncle from Iran were actually visiting me in New York on the day of the election. Their daughter is just two years older than me. She's also in college. She volunteered for Mousavi's campaign doing basically what young volunteers do here in the States — handing out literature and putting up posters. But that proved dangerous after the election. (Read more...)
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