Outliving Iran

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Personal insights into life in a dictatorship vs. a free country, resilience, value of progress, and what it takes to fight injustice. Real-life accounts from someone who fought his way through enslavement to live in freedom.

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About Pouya Nikmand

I'm a writer who escaped Iran and embarked on a perilous, ongoing journey to reach freedom in the United Statesโ€”my favorite country. I write to bring out what's good in people because I've seen too much of the bad in them. [email protected]

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