Thursday, September 21, 2017

Iran Remembers the Murderous Summer of 1988



When Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani speaks to the United Nations Wednesday, I will be thinking about the events of 1988, which the regime has tried to erase from history. In school our lessons contained no reference to that summer of blood. But I heard one firsthand story in 2012 from Maryam Akbari Monfared while we were both being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison for our political activities.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-remembers-the-murderous-summer-of-1988-1505861938


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