View of Iran: "It's so Incredibly Quiet"

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Anahita Azizi learned to hate silence. She was four years old when she left Iran with her mother and her siblings in the 1990s and the family received political asylum in Germany. She can't remember much. They are fragments: her apartment in Tehran, marches that she pursued from the window. Only one thing remains in her memory to this day: whispering. "My parents kept whispering." Sometimes, she says, they suddenly lowered their voices in the mi…