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انتشار در ایرانوایر «آرین شریفی»، جوان ۳۰ ساله ایرانی که حدود شش سال است در تفلیس زندگی میکند؛ هرگز زمانی که برای اولین بار نام «پوریا نایبی» را شنید، فراموش نمیکند. تابستان سال ۲۰۱۵ بود… عوامل جمهوری اسلامی در گرجستان؛ درباره پوریا نایبی و شرکا چه میدانیم؟
Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, is used to giving interviews. In his almost eight years in the job, he’s spoken to hundreds of journalists from around the world, putting forward Tehran’s case, quite often in fluent English. But on Feb. 24, he sat down with the Iranian economist Saeed Leylaz for a different sort of exchange.
Organized by the Center for Strategic Studies, a think tank run by the office of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the interview was part of an oral history project meant to give Iran’s cabinet ministers space to speak candidly for posterity. These interviews were meant to be edited and published months, if not years, later — only after classified material was scrubbed from the record. Or so it seemed.
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Growing up in the Israeli port city of Haifa, Mikhal Dekel was often asked about her parents’ background, as many Israelis are. When they asked her if her father was a Holocaust survivor, she’d say, “No, he was not. He was a Tehran Child.”
For generations of Israelis, the term “Tehran Children” has been an enigmatic designation. It denotes those who fled Eastern Europe during World War II, mostly from German-occupied Poland, and made their way to then Mandatory Palestine via Tehran. Many remained in Israel following its creation in 1948. Of course, the Tehran Children were Holocaust survivors too, having had to flee the genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, but Dekel explains that she didn’t think of her father on those terms: “Survivors had a muted aura of shame and anxiety in the Israel of my youth,” she writes in her new book, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. “But the Tehran Children were Israelis: kibbutzniks, army generals, media personalities, industrialists. They were not Europe’s rejected, but Israel’s desired.”
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He has been dead for a month.
On Dec. 12 Iranians woke up to bleak news: Their government had executed Ruhollah Zam, a 42-year-old journalist. The sentencing judge described Mr. Zam as a spy, as someone who incited violence and had “sown corruption on earth,” a vague charge which is often used to describe attempts to overthrow the Iranian government.
“Goodbye, my son; a son who was a father, a husband, a brother and a comrade; a comrade to the very end,” wrote prominent reformist cleric Mohammad Ali Zam in an Instagram post. He was the father of dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was brutally executed on December 12.
In 2019, Ruhollah was lured to Iraq, arrested upon arrival and handed over to Iranian intelligence agents who then took him to Iran where was put on trial for a long list of allegations. Among those were spying for Israel and France, provoking armed forces to mutiny and collaborate with the United States. Zam, who was tortured into confessing, was executed just fourteen months after his arrest.