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Listening to Iranians abroad
Clayton Collins
In interviews last week from Tehran, Iran, the BBC鈥檚 Lyse Doucet 鈥� reporting with special permission and with the proviso that her work not air on a BBC Persian subsidiary 鈥� gathered voices from the street. She asked one young woman to describe how she felt days after the U.S. bombing of strategic Iranian sites in the early hours of June 22, following attacks by Israel that had touched the capital city. 鈥淎ngry?鈥� Doucet asked. 鈥淪cared?鈥� The woman paused before settling, in accented English, on 鈥渟ad.鈥澛�
Universal human yearnings 鈥� for security, for freedom 鈥� bubble up when conflict shakes the status quo. What might it bring? Iranians living abroad, many of them in exile, face an extra level of complexity. From Berlin and Paris, two of our writers explore perspectives from the Iranian diaspora.
