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Iason Athanasiadis

Iran's winds of change

By Iason Athanasiadis
February 14, 2008

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TEN MONTHS after moving to Boston from Iran, I returned in January to a snow-blanketed Tehran. After a nine-month crackdown on what Iran's moral guardians call un-Islamic dressing, the city had gone back to looking remarkably like its representations in the just-released film "Persepolis," a movie set in the repressive post-Revolutionary years of the early '80s. (Full article: 792 words)

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