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Iran, Fear and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

April 2, 2015 • by Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard

My partner and I saw Iran from our own eyes last May 2014. The plane was going up and down, as I never experienced before. The pilot seemed to struggle to land in what appeared to be a sand storm over Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran. This difficult landing injected ...

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