1.0 link 213837 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-sedaei/iran-more-than-an-electio_b_213837.html My first engagement with Iranian politics happened in 1997 in Tehran when the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, was running for president. Khatami ran on the platform of change, reform and support for "dialogue among civilizations"-- a notion deeply unfamiliar to a post-revolution born teenager who had thought the only interaction Iranian leaders were interested in having with Western countries was to wish "death" on them. The election was so exciting that it brought my parents to the polls for...

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