The Iranian Body and Mind: 47 Years of Trauma

Season 1 was about oil, power and silence. Season 2 starts inside the human being. In this opening episode I talk about “47 years of trauma” – how executions, prisons, war and the morality police have shaped the Iranian body and mind since 1979. I break down what happens to a body that is constantly policed, and to a mind that grows up between propaganda outside and whispered truth at home. This sets the direction for Season 2: childhood under a lie, the diaspora wound, religion and guilt, and how trauma travels from parents to kids – and what healing after the Islamic Republic could look like.