There’s a country that was once rooted in a movement around social justice and political freedom.
That country? It’s Iran in 1979 during the revolution.
The path from 1979, with the toppling of a monarch, through the decades of oppression and economic turmoil that followed, to this current moment, is mapped out in the book: “Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran.”
Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter and co-author Yeganeh Torbati about her new book, which follows six ordinary Iranians who — through their lived experiences — provide rare insight into the hopes and fears of people living from the revolution through decades of turmoil.
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