Peta Hawker: Postcard from Iran

May 2 2017 - 9:11am
EXPERIENCE: Peta Hawker says a trip to Iran was eye-opening. "Often the pendulum of a country's character will swing violently one way ... but, given time, things even out."
EXPERIENCE: Peta Hawker says a trip to Iran was eye-opening. "Often the pendulum of a country's character will swing violently one way ... but, given time, things even out."

At school in 1980, a teacher asked us to imagine the world and our lives in the year 2000. I decided that by the dizzyingly distant age of 31 I wanted to have travelled to East Berlin, visited Moscow and Beijing, been to Persepolis (in what was formerly known as Persia), and lived in Japan.

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