Will the Iranian protesters succeed? With Dina Nayeri
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English - March 20, 2023 06:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBPolitics News Government Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As protests against the Iranian regime continue, Megan Gibson speaks to the award-winning writer Dina Nayeri, whose latest book is Who Gets Believed When the Truth Isn’t Enough?
They discuss the uprising in Iran since Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by the oppressive morality police, where the protests are going, Nayeri’s own experiences with the morality police, and why refugees and asylum seekers are demonised by public discourse and political policies.
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