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Marjan Keypour Greenblatt: Iranians ‘didn’t know what they were getting’ when they overthrew the shah

The Iran-born human rights activist discusses femicide, the country’s theocratic rise and current protests and how the Biden administration should respond

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Before the global outcry, before thousands of protestors lined city streets, before refusing a headcovering — among other trivial “transgressions” — became punishable by death, Marjan Keypour Greenblatt remembers what life was like growing up in Iran that had...

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