The past weeks have been hard for me. This time I do not hear my daughter crying over the phone. I do not hear from my daughter at all. Millions of Iranians all over Iran, in cities large and small, in villages even, are out in the streets protesting and shouting slogans against the government. The government deems them terrorists and dominions of the United States and Israel, so they freely shoot at them with live ammunition and pellets. The de ...
Through an Eye
Bombs were exploding, screams of pain and fear carried across neighborhoods, sounds of aircraft, of missiles, of shouting people. Israel attacked Iran June this year, just like it said it would, but still, it came unexpectedly.Above the sounds, my daughter’s tearful voice. She and her husband live in Tehran, in a subdivision close to where the first bombs fell. What words can a mother who lives continents away say to assure her child? Distance i ...