Global Perspectives: Historic Iranian delegation on relations with Israel: ‘We are not enemies’
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In this interview, Ellie Cohanim talks with famed former Iranian political prisoner Ahmad Batebi and Iranian dissident Ben Tabatabai. Filmed on location in Jerusalem, Ellie Cohanim joined the two as part of a delegation of Iranian Muslim dissidents traveling to Israel to express the Iranian people’s solidarity with the Jewish state. In this heartwrenching conversation, Ahmad Batebi shares his harrowing experience of undergoing torture and solitary confinement at the hands of the Islamic regime. They also discuss Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and their joint aspiration for a Cyrus Accords peace deal between a free Iran and Israel.
‘We are not enemies’, Historic Iranian Delegation on relations with Israel | Global Perspectives
In this interview, Ellie Cohanim talks with famed former Iranian political prisoner Ahmad Batebi and Iranian dissident Ben Tabatabai. Filmed on location in Jerusalem, Ellie Cohanim joined the two as part of a delegation of Iranian Muslim dissidents traveling to Israel to express the Iranian people’s solidarity with the Jewish state.
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