I Was Born in Iran, and I Grew Up in India and India With My Mother

I was born in Iran, and I grew up in India from the age of four where I attended an English boarding school. And I came to the United States at the age of 15 under political asylum with my mother. This was after the Islamic Revolution where ethnic and religious minority groups in Iran were being persecuted. Many of the Iranians in my generation have lost their parents so this time is particularly difficult for us because our parents lived for so many decades with this hope in their heart that Iran would one day be free. We are paralysed in terms of what we can actually do to help the Iranians there. The killing of Masa Amini was simply a spark.