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Why the Western mind cannot comprehend Iran

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Why the Western mind cannot comprehend Iran
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In 1981, Behrooz Ghamari was condemned to Iran’s notorious Evin prison, which housed the Islamic Republic’s political opponents. Evin had been built for a capacity of 1,500 inmates, but Ghamari estimates there were up to 30,000 when he was there. The cells were brimming, 100 men in a six square metre room. There were too many to sleep on the floor, so they took shifts: some slept while others stood huddled in a corner. Prisoners were regularly and brutally tortured. Ghamari watched as his cell-m

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