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Conversation with Roya Hakakian, the author, her new book, A Beginner's Guide to America

for the Immigrant and the Curious.

Diplomacy.

The U.S. and Iran have been at odds, and it looks like a war, it talks like a war,

it acts like a war, it's a war since

1979, since the revolution. And Roy has written, many have written of the outrageous

perpetrated by the Mullahs by the regime in Tehran. And yet, maintaining diplomatic relations

is the ambition of states that are at odds.

Geopolitics insists upon it. The puzzle for the immigrant is what to make of the news.

You want to be an American citizen. Your ambition is to be naturalized American citizen.

And yet in the news all the time is the threat of war with your

native land. Roya writes the wonderful image, you're a twilight citizen. You're neither this

or that. You're somewhere in between, especially while you're waiting to be naturalized.

Roya, it is easy to condemn Iran for its human rights.

As it was easy in 1875, it's easy now.

At the same time, the U.S. seeks diplomatic relations, seeks all the time, Iran in the news.

How does the immigrant hear tension between his adopted land, America, and his native land.

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