{"id":820,"date":"2020-02-22T20:48:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:40:02","slug":"city-of-lies-by-ramita-navai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"City of Lies<\/em> by Ramita Navai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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City of Lies<\/em> by Ramita Navai<\/h1>\n

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Navai is a British-Iranian journalist who has had rare access to the people and places that make up the toxic underbelly of Iran\u2019s capital<\/strong>.\u00a0This is a story the ayatollahs and apologists for the regime do not want us to know about<\/strong>.\u00a0The clash between the strictures of the Islamic theocracy and the reality of what is actually happening reveals the appalling hypocrisy that runs deep within the country and its people.<\/p>\n

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I\u00a0saw the author of this book, Ramita Navai, pitching her book (subtitled “Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran”<\/em>) \u00a0to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show<\/em> in 2014 and immediately went out and bought it. Here she is with a British interviewer.<\/p>\n

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Ramita Navai & Jon Stewart<\/em><\/p>\n

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