Golnaz Esfandiari

Golnaz Esfandiari is a Senior Correspondent in RFE/RL's Central Newsroom and editor of the Persian Letters blog. She served previously as Chief Editor of RFE's Persian-language service, Radio Farda and as head of the newsroom's Asia Desk. Born in Tehran, She has traveled to Afghanistan several times and reported on the country’s first parliamentary elections. An interview with the wife of Iran's most prominent investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, was published in six languages (including English, German, Russian and Arabic) at the occasion of the 2006 World Press Freedom Day.

Mar 202012
 
“We don’t want to bomb you”

Israelis, Iranians try to avert war through Facebook.

by Golnaz Esfandiari

Amid the drumbeat of war between Iran and Israel, an Israeli couple has launched an online peace campaign in an effort to reach out to Iranians and say no to a military conflict.

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