Video – Letters from Iran
While winds of change have been blowing through the Arab world, Iranians have been forced to wait for political reform.
In 2009, in the aftermath of elections that saw Ahmadinejad’s return to power as president, millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest the result. But the demonstrations were brutally repressed and the hopes of the “green revolutionaries” dashed.
Since then Iran has closed itself off to international media, making it difficult to determine what happened to the many thousands of dissidents arrested and imprisoned during the protests, or the current scale of political opposition to the regime.
Yet this film reveals that opposition is still alive and kicking and just as eager for change as before. Letters from Iran paints a fascinating portrait of the aftermath of the Green Revolution and a country holding its breath.
Letters from Iran – YouTube.
Healing the Green Soul
As a therapist who specializes in the treatment of survivors of trauma, I hold a hope one day my services will not be needed because no one has to endure abuse or torture. One of the ways I work to achieve this goal is to speak for those whose voices are not heard. Please join me in supporting the One Million Voices for Iran Campaign to speak for the brave people who have survived the grievous human rights abuses inflicted by the Iranian Regime and bring an end to the oppression of the courageous people of Iran.
- Julianne Davis, creator of Healing the Green Soul, an English-and-Persian-language handbook for supporting victims of violent trauma.
