A granddaughter’s search for Iran

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 Author Delphine Minoui discovered Iran via a friendship with her grandmother. Minoui talks with host Marco Werman about her new book, “I’m Writing You from Tehran: A Granddaughter’s Search for Her Family’s Past and Their Country’s Future,” and the transformation she witnessed when her apolitical, tradition-bound grandmother found her voice, and dared to question Iran’s ayatollahs.

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