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Friday essay: ‘my heart is full of sparks’ – as war escalates, can I hope for Iran’s liberation from a tyrannical regime?

By Hessom Razavi, Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, The University of Western Australia

Hessom Razavi’s family fled to Australia from Iran in the 1980s to escape persecution. As he watches events unfold, he speaks to relatives still there and reflects on Iran’s fate.

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