Azadeh Moaveni On Air On Iran

Last week, in my driving around between here and there, I caught bits and pieces of an interview on MPR with a woman named Azadeh Moaveni.

I was so interested in what she had to say, that this morning I went out to the MPR web site, found the complete interview online and listened to it while doing paperwork in my office.

I would recommend it to anyone!

Moaveni is an American journalist and an author who is ethnically Iranian.

Her most recent book just came out. It's called Honeymoon in Tehran. In 2005, she accepted a reporting job that set her up in Tehran covering current events in Iran.

While there, she fell in love, got married and had a baby, thinking that life in Iran wasn't so bad and that she wanted to stay there.

But then . . . but then things turned sour and she needed to get out. Her experiences and her perceptions about Iran were fascinating.

Plus, she knows Roxanna Saberi, the American journalist who is currently being held on espionage charges in Iran. It was interesting to hear what she had to say about that.

If you want to hear the interview, you can find it here.

Photo - from Azadeh Moaveni's web site.