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America Must See Iran With Clear Eyes
The current protests in Iran have filled immigrants like me with so many different emotions. But whatever happens, one of the most beautiful outcomes of this moment is that, for the first time, many Americans are seeing Iranians as separate from their government.
Meha
I didn’t expect that meeting Meha was going to keep me up at night, but it did. In my dreams, those days, I was always on a boat in the middle of a dark ocean, when a bigger boat, full of male guards, stopped mine to arrest me and take me back to my family, who had paid for my abduction. I woke up screaming in my bed, night after night. It wasn’t Meha’s fault, of course…
