'Our pain hasn't been in vain:' how Iranians are creating a nation beyond the regime

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“Stand firm in what you believe, even if you must stand alone.” These words are etched into my baba’s gravestone. We found them among his last notes, written in a hand already weakened by grief. He died in October 2022, exactly 40 days after the morality police killed Mahsa Jina Amini in Tehran. Her death triggered nationwide protests, unprecedented at the time, and they were met with a bloody crackdown from the regime. His heart could no longer take the pain...

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