This is how Azamat Ajdari, sister of Ghanimat, one of the victims of the UIA's doomed flight 757, expands on the tragedy.
Bitcoin mining has allowed Tehran to circumvent some U.S. sanctions. But the country is now being hit by regular power outages and smog linked to the energy-sucking cryptocurrency operations.
"Deep in my heart, I longed for the lie to continue. Alas, it did not. After three days full of lies, the truth hit us like lightning."
Siavash Ghafouri Azar and Sara Mamani were both graduates of Concordia University in Canada. They had traveled to Iran to celebrate their wedding with their relatives but never returned to Canada.
Speaking to Radio Farda, Hamed Esmaeelioun, 43, recounts the untold details of the moments that collapsed like a terrible nightmare on the lives of the survivors of the flight victims.
In Iran, thousands of fathers and mothers whose children have fallen victim to the Islamic Republic's heavy-handed response to protests are deprived of mourning for their loved ones.
A significant shift in the situation of human rights in Iran requires a change in the balance of power between the government and people who are seeking change.
"One of the nightmares of my life that always recurs is that [my father's murder] seems to happen again and again in my sleep, while I struggle to find a way to stop it."
U.S. sanctions have put the spotlight on the activities of Iran's Al-Mustafa International University, a network of religious seminaries that has been accused of espionage and the recruitment of foreign fighters.
In Ebrahim Zalzadeh's last editorial, addressed to the Iranian regime's strong man, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, he declared, "Dictatorship will not last."
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