Iran Weekly Wire Podcast

Today IranWire presents the second episode of our new podcast series, Iran Weekly Wire.

This week, Roland Elliott Brown looks at the special uses — and abuses — of rhetoric in the Islamic Republic.

From a Lorestan police chief’s expressions of anxiety over Turkish soap operas, to a Revolutionary Guard Commander’s worries over closing mosques, officials in Iran offer variations on a familiar script.

Iranian citizens, meanwhile, know how to speak the government’s language — albeit with varying degrees of success.

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