A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price
by
Afsaneh Moqadam
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Tehran, June 12, 2009. Mohsen Abbaspour, an ordinary young man in his twenties—not particularly political, or ambitious, or worldly—casts the first vote of his life in Iran's tenth presidential election. Fed up with rising unemployment and inflation, he backs the reformist party and its candidate,...