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Iranian-British author Ramita Navai says Iran’s capital Tehran is full of people who are leading double lives. On the outside, they conform. On the inside, they are true to themselves. She tells their stories in her novel, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the search for Truth in Tehran.

Simin Behbahani was a beloved Iranian poet who earned the nickname “Lioness” for her powerful verse. US President Barack Obama recited one of her poems in his 2011 message to the Iranian people.

In Part One, The World’s Jeb Sharp has a look at how Washington changed the destiny of another country.

Some say Iran’s president took a very symbolic step toward accepting the reality of the holocaust in an interview with CNN. Holocaust researcher Deborah Lipstadt doubts it.

Iran reserves one seat in its parliament for a representative of its Jewish minority. And Iran’s only Jewish lawmaker has travelled to New York this week with the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani. Anchor Marco Werman talks with reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan. He covers Iran for The Guardian.