Even as the state projected strength and unity, people revealed a more complicated reality: grief and national pride, opposition to the government alongside unease over foreign intervention, and anger at Israel and the U.S. alongside frustration with economic hardship.
Iran Journey Reveals Society’s Wartime Defiance and Hope (Gift Article)From the capital, Tehran, to the holy city of Mashhad, the Iran I saw was a nation of many layers: defiant but also weary, despairing but hopeful.www.nytimes.com