A Middle East Correspondent Reflects on War in Iran
About this episode
Shirin Jaafari discusses her experiences covering the war in Iran and the misconceptions Americans have about the country.
Reporter Shirin Jaafari has covered countless conflicts across the Middle East. But now, for the first time, the neighborhoods of her childhood in Iran have become a warzone. Shirin has been covering the war for The World radio program at GBH, here in Boston, while keeping tabs of her family and friends back home. This week on Say More, she talks to Boston Globe opinion editor Jim Dao about what Americans get wrong about Iran and the aspirations of the vast, and diverse, Iranian diaspora. Email us at saymore@globe.com.
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