On my trip this past summer to the Islamic Republic of Iran, my group (students and staff from the University of Chicago) was scheduled to have several meetings with student groups, non-governmental organizations and minority groups. Due to increasingly tense relations with the United States, the majority of those meetings...

In August and September, I traveled to the Islamic Republic of Iran with a group of students and staff from my University. We spent two weeks traveling around the country, and visited Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz and Isfahan. We had planned meetings and informal encounters with people from all different walks...