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🎥 Notes from the Ground: Reflections on a Month That Shook Iran Documentary photographer and essayist Kaveh Rostamkhani has been on the ground in Tehran throughout the unrest and bloodshed that gripped Iran over the past weeks and published an essay on Instagram on Wednesday titled “Iran Unrests: A...

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