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Regime 'taking the Iranian people hostage'

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Biresh Banerjee | Anthony Howard
March 11, 2026

Ali Fathollah-Nejad, director of the Center for Middle East and Global Order, a think-tank researching society in Iran, spoke with DW about how people in Iran are responding to the conflict with Israel and the US.

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